India, Sept. 29 -- Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar discussed geopolitical trends while meeting UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in New York on the sidelines of the UNGA.

After meeting Antonio Guterres, Jaishankar said: "Pleased to meet @UN

Secretary-General @antonioguterres today in New York."

He further said: "Discussed UN@80, geopolitical trends, current hotspots & India's perspectives."

The minister decried a perceived lack of global solidarity on a number of issues: he described the slow progress of the Sustainable Development Goals (which are way off track for completion by the 2030 deadline) as "a sorry picture," condemned the "recirculated commitments and creative accounting" that, he said, pass for climate a...