The biennial event Vibrant Gujarat is really getting bigger as the schedule date is coming closer. Apart from eight partner countries including USA, now international dignitaries are confirming their presence at the much awaited 7th edition of Vibrant Gujarat to be inaugurated by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The latest confirmation is the Secretary General of United Nation, Ban Ki-moon. Official sources in the Gujarat Government on Monday said that Ban would attend the inaugural ceremony of Vibrant Gujarat 2015 at Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar.
Already participation of four Prime Ministers of Denmark, Netherlands, Japan and Australia have been confirmed. With Ban's confirmation, the event also gets endorsement of United Nations. Interestingly, he entered diplomatic service the year he graduated from university, accepting his first post in New Delhi.
Septuagenarian Ban is the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations, after succeeding Kofi Annan in 2007. Before becoming Secretary-General, Ban was a career diplomat in South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the United Nations. Ban was the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea from January 2004 to November 2006. In February 2006 he began to campaign for the office of Secretary-General.
Sources said that he would also visit Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad and pay tribute to Mahatma Gandhi after attending Vibrant Gujarat event at Gandhinagar. He was named the world’s 32nd most powerful person by Forbes in 2013, the highest among Koreans.