India's efforts to have strong outcomes at G20 annual summit receive support by grouping: Amitabh Kant

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global challenges such as addressing financing gaps, pushing economic growth and ensuring sustainable development, India's G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant said on Saturday. He also described the ongoing discussions at the third Sherpas' meeting in this heritage city as a «very huge success» and that the negotiators were supportive of priorities of the Indian presidency of the G20.

Talking to the media, Kant said the negotiators deliberated on challenges such as debt vulnerabilities, making multilateral institutions more responsive to the needs of developing countries and ensuring progress on the sustainable development goals. «India has put forward multiple key proposals in front of the G20 countries with a view to shaping the global agenda and response to the crisis and challenges being faced by the world,» Kant said.

The Indian G20 Sherpa said the delegates «praised our efforts to bring very strong outcomes to deliver in addressing key global challenges». «Several of them actually admitted that this is the most ambitious outcome document (draft) that they have seen in G20 since its beginning, and actually thanked India for bringing the issues crucial for both developing countries, emerging countries and the developed countries,» he said.

The three-day Sherpas' meeting comes less than two months ahead of the G20 Summit in New Delhi on September 9 and 10. People familiar with the discussions said that there were no formal discussions on the text relating to the Ukraine crisis though there were exchanges on the contentious matter in bilateral meetings.

There have been sharp differences between the West and the Russia-China combine on the text relating to the Ukraine crisis. In the text of the draft communique, two paragraphs on