Amid conflict in Gaza, India to host digital G20 meet immediately | India Information
Whereas Russian President Vladimir Putin will make an look on the G20 for the primary time in at the least two years, US President Joe Biden is not going to be current attributable to Thanksgiving and can be represented by treasury secretary Janet Yellen.
This may even be the primary time when Canadian PM Justin Trudeau will come nose to nose, though nearly, with PM Modi after the bitter diplomatic standoff between the 2 international locations days after his return from India to Ottawa in September. China can be represented by Premier Li Qiang as President Xi Jinping will as soon as once more be lacking.
Whereas India will push for the event agenda to be on the centre stage, officers didn’t rule out the potential for the Israel-Hamas conflict being a key speaking level.
“Since our profitable internet hosting of the G20 Leaders’ Summit, the world has witnessed a succession of occasions and a number of other new challenges have emerged. Whereas growth would be the core agenda and we’ll deal with the event concern, the leaders could talk about different points,” India’s sherpa Amitabh Kant instructed reporters.
International secretary Vinay Kwatra mentioned it wouldn’t be correct to prejudge points to be mentioned by the leaders, as Indian officers listed out the progress on a number of points which have been made for the reason that summit in September.
“The PM can be internet hosting leaders of the G20 inside a span of simply over two months. That is one thing very uncommon and somewhat distinctive. No different presidency has had a bodily assembly of all of the leaders after which a digital assembly. Along with all this, the PM has hosted two classes of the Voice of International South. Really, India has held 4 such conferences in a single yr with the participation of over 150 world leaders which clearly demonstrates the convening energy and the management of the prime minister on the international stage,” Kant mentioned.
India secured a uncommon consensus on the G20 summit in September towards the backdrop of the Russia-Ukraine conflict — a difficulty which had threatened to create a divide between the developed and rising economies.
New Delhi is now engaged on implementation of the problems agreed by leaders within the summit. There was substantial progress on a number of points, together with local weather financing, reform of multilateral growth banks and work on creation of a framework for moral synthetic intelligence primarily based on the Unesco’s ideas.
