India's G20 Presidency was challenging as it confronted very sharp East-West 'polarisation', deep North-South divide: EAM Jaishankar
India's G20 Presidency was «challenging» as it came amid «a very sharp» East-West polarisation and «very deep» North-South divide, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said. The remarks by Jaishankar came at a special 'India-UN for Global South: Delivering for Development' side event he hosted here on Saturday on the margins of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly.
«We meet just a few weeks after the New Delhi G20 Summit, a summit which took place on the theme of 'One Earth, One Family, One Future'.
Now, it was a challenging summit. It was actually a challenging presidency,» he said
The event saw participation from dignitaries at the UN as well as Foreign Ministers from Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Small Island States.
«It was challenging because we were confronting a very sharp East-West polarisation as well as a very deep North-South divide.
