India assumed the Presidency of the G20 for one year from December 1 last year. The G20 Summit will be held in New Delhi on September 9-10 this year
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In a major endorsement to New Delhi’s presidency of G-20, UN resident coordinator, Shombi Sharp, said here on Wednesday that India is uniquely positioned at this time of the divided world to play a very constructive and positive role in bringing together countries. The UN resident coordinator made the above remark while talking at a conference by Global India Insights.
Speaking further about his expectations from India’s G20 Presidency, Shombi Sharp said, “Expectations remain very high and that India has set goals of ambitious, inclusive, action-oriented G20,” and ‘India is delivering on that.’
“It has been an incredible experience. We saw that in the amazing parts of the country. I think the discussions are very timely. India is uniquely positioned at this time of the divided world to play a very constructive and positive role in bringing together countries”, Sharp added.
India assumed the Presidency of the G20 for one year from December 1 last year. The G20 Summit will be held in New Delhi on September 9-10 this year.
At the same platform, G20 Chief Coordinator Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Wednesday said “any growth today is largely accounted by the developing world”.
The G20 Chief Coordinator who attended a conference of Centre for Global India Insights in New Delhi on Wednesday said the developing world bore the brunt of the consequences of many of the global situations.
“And that has been manifested by slower demand for goods and services, lowering remittances and increasing tendency towards indebtedness,” he added. Speaking on global growth from the developing world, he said 4/5 of the global growth is from the Global South, of which 15 per cent is accounted for by India alone. Having said this, he said, “We have, I think come out of Covid in a manner that has been quite resilient economically.”
Stressing the importance of the next 25 years and the young people during his speech, he said, “The next 25 years is very important and those 25 years is really the onus of securing that objective of becoming a USD 30 trillion economy from the current USD 3-trillion economy rise largely on many of the young people I see in the hall and of course the youth of India, those who are 25 today will be 50 in 2047.”
Meanwhile, Ina Krisnamurthi, Indonesian Envoy to India, who was also present at the conference, told ANI, “Completing around four-and-a-half-months to its G20 Presidency, interesting dynamics have been happening and India will strive and thrive in its G20 Presidency.”
“Four months have gone and it has been very interesting dynamics happening. Over and over again I can say that India will strive and thrive in its presidency. Many achievements have already done by India in the issue of digital and energy transition and many other issues, essentially when India put forward the principle of inclusivity in its presidency. So, we are so looking forward to what India can do”, said the Indonesian Envoy.
Speaking further about the last G20 ministerial meeting held where there couldn’t be a consensus, the Envoy said that we should not lose any hope and optimism because past meetings cannot define what is going to be the result and outcome of the summit.
The recently held G-20 Finance Ministers’ meeting in Bangalore could not come up with a communique. As the chair of the G-20 meeting, India came with a Chair’s summary. While the G20 Foreign Ministers’ meeting held in March too was unable to agree to a joint communique over sharp differences on the Russia-Ukraine war between the US-led West on one side and Russia-China on the other.
In a related development, rejecting Pakistan’s criticism, India on Thursday said G20 meetings are being organized in the entire country and hence it is “natural” to hold meetings in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh as “these are inalienable parts of India.”
Pakistan recently slammed India’s decision to host a G20 meeting in Srinagar and parts of Kashmir as an “irresponsible move”. “G20 meetings are being organized in entire India, in all cities and parts of India. It is therefore natural to hold the meetings in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh because these are inalienable parts of India,” Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Official Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said during the MEA Weekly Media Briefing on Thursday.
“That is what I would like to say. The meetings are being held in all parts of India, that is our natural response,” the MEA official spokesperson said.
Indian announced Srinagar as the venue for the G20 Tourism Working Group meeting scheduled to take place from May 22 to 24.
