G20 Summit contributed to making India world-ready and the world India-ready, says MEA Minister Jaishankar
India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar while addressing a press briefing on the G20 Summit outcomes said that India's presidency has contributed to making 'India world-ready and the world India-ready.'
The G20 Leaders’s Summit Declaration that the leaders have agreed on focuses on promoting strong, sustainable, balanced and inclusive growth, seeks to accelerate progress on SDGs, envisages a green development pact for a sustainable future and endorses high-level principles on lifestyle for sustainable development, Jaishankar said on Saturday.
Along with other initiatives, African Union's inclusion in G20 was among India's key priorities in the G20 summit under its presidency.
While commenting on inclusion of African Union, he added that this happened under India's presidency to prioritise urgent concerns of the Global South.
«You would recall that at the beginning of our presidency, at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's initiative, 125 nations were consulted to express voice of the Global South,» he said.
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When India assumed the G20 presidency on December 1, 2022, PM Modi had set out various visions for the nation's year-long presidency and the Global South was one of them.
MEA Minister also highlighted the importance of summit on India.
«In terms of organisation and programme, the Indian presidency, if I may say so, has been exceptional. Events have been spread across 60 cities which are truly across the length and breadth of India. There has been a popular participation and a
