Year Ender 2023: G20 stands out as India's diplomatic achievement of year
G20 standing out as the country's diplomatic achievement of the year.
Through its G20 presidency, India was able to get the most influential, powerful, and consequential countries of the world to gather around the table and discuss, agree on some of the most pressing issues concerning the world today.
As External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar rightfully said, the G20 is like the World Cup of diplomacy, where the biggest and strongest players come together.
«When we took the presidency, people did not have many expectations out of it. Through our G20, we bridged all the divides, found a common ground for countries which were otherwise arguing among themselves, who found it very difficult to reconcile.
But, we were able to bridge it,» the EAM said in his address at the Rotary Institute 2023 event in Bengaluru on December 17.
India assumed the G20 Presidency on December 1, 2022.
The 18th G20 Leaders' Summit was held in New Delhi on September 9 and 10. It saw the unanimous adoption of the G20 New Delhi Leaders' Declaration, which demonstrated the commitment of the G20 leaders to address global challenges in an inclusive, decisive and action-oriented manner.
The biggest takeaway of the declaration was that all 83 paras of the declaration were passed unanimously with a 100 per cent consensus along with China and Russia in agreement.
For the first time, the declaration contained no footnote or Chair's Summary.
Also, the declaration being the most ambitious, contained 112 outcomes — both the outcomes and annexed documents — which is two-and-a-half- times more than any other.
PM Modi congratulated the Sherpas and ministers who had worked towards forging the consensus.
«I have received good news. Due to the hard
