<span style="color: #222222;">External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met and discussed bilateral issues with his counterparts and other leaders from a number of countries, including Brazil and Japan, on the sidelines of the 74th United Nations General Assembly session in New York yesterday. </span><br />''<br />''He tweeted photographs of his meetings with Brazil's Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo, Sierra Leone's Nabeela Tunis, Ugandan Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda and Latvia's Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics.<br />''The Minister said, India-Uganda ties are a textbook case for South-South cooperation. He said, Prime Minister Modi's visit to Uganda last year was the first bilateral tour by an Indian prime minister since 1997.<br />''<br />''The external affairs minister, in another tweet, said, he is expecting to work closely with his Japanese counterpart on India-Japan special relationship. Toshimitsu Motegi was appointed Japan's foreign minister earlier this month.<br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">Mr. Jaishankar also interactions with Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan, Croatia's FM Gordan Grlic Radman, European Union's Foreign Policy chief Federica Mogherini and the Maldivian Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid. </span><br />