Krishna read out the wrong speech UNSC

(PTI) A day after he inadvertently read out bits of the Portuguese Foreign Minister's speech at a Security Council debate, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna today said that these things happen because many of these speeches make the same initial points.

"There was nothing wrong in it," Krishna said, adding "there were so many papers spread infront of me so by mistake the wrong speech was taken out."

Speaking at the United Nations Security Council at a debate on security and development on Friday, Krishna read out the wrong speech for about three minutes before being corrected by India's envoy to the UN Hardeep Singh Puri."Unfortunately, it happened," he said, noting that many of these speeches contain the same thing in the first paragraph, which is to convey greetings to the country presiding over the Security Council.