Text on Ukraine in G20 declaration reflected 'convergent consensus' rather than 'divisive consensus'
Ukraine conflict is a «convergent consensus» rather than a «divisive consensus» and it could show a path to resolution of the crisis, official sources said on Sunday, a day after India pulled of a breakthrough on the contentious issue. It was a combination of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's guarantee and magic, the sources said while referring to total unanimity among the member nation's on the entire New Delhi G20 Leaders' Declaration.
India managed to hammer out the unexpected consensus among the G20 countries on the contentious Ukraine conflict through a series of hectic negotiations with emerging economies such as Brazil, South Africa and Indonesia playing a leading role in reaching the agreement on the declaration.
It is important to look at the nature of the consensus with the document as the declaration actually reflects «47 sub-consensus» in a range of issues, the sources said.
Explaining it, they said the declaration has around 10 broad themes and 37 sub-heads and all the countries agreed on all of them.
Overall, the outcome at the G20 summit demonstrated India and its leadership as a «junction box of democratic values», the sources said.
The paragraphs on the Ukraine conflict in the New Delhi declaration must not be looked at from the perspective of last year's Bali declaration, they said.
«It is a convergent consensus rather than a divisive consensus,» said one of the sources, noting that the approach that featured in the declaration reflected a «stable» framework to deal with the crisis while divisive consensus is always «fragile».
«The story of the consensus is a remarkable one and the overall approach in the document reflected a larger context.
