The Global South has a voice thanks to India’s G20 presidency, said High Commissioner Doraiswami

According to the Indian High Commissioner to the UK, Vikram Doraiswami, the G20 is the most important platform for the world to promote equitable development. India’s leadership this year has contributed to giving the Global South a voice and creating a really exceptional G20.

The senior diplomat who had just returned from a trip to India spoke about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s initiative to highlight every region of India at each G20 meeting, which will culminate in the Heads of State and Government Summit in New Delhi early next month, during an interview on Tuesday to commemorate India’s 77th Independence Day at the India House in London.

On September 9 and 10, the G20 global leaders’ summit is set to take place in New Delhi. It is anticipated to be one of the biggest meetings of world leaders in India.

 

In addition, he cited President Droupadi Murmu’s Independence Day speech to the country to reaffirm India’s role in influencing the G20 dialogue in favor of the developing world through its presidency of the intergovernmental group, which consists of the world’s top economies from 19 countries and the European Union (EU).

 

According to Doraiswami, the G20 is the world’s leading platform for attempting to improve prospects for equitable development for all nations.

 

India has made an effort to try and create a truly unusual G20, he added, “not just in terms of the locations that we’ve showcased, but also in terms of the agenda. And getting us, as the President’s speech said, to be able to nudge the global dialogue in the right direction, whether it is in terms of the digital development agenda, whether it is in terms of poverty alleviation, in terms of the voice of the South.

 

The High Commissioner emphasized the connection between Prime Minister Modi’s Amrit Kaal aim and the G20 theme of One Earth, One Family, One Future in relation to the next 25 years leading up to the centennial of independence.

 

“I think the Prime Minister has made it very clear that the intention is to make every year special and to help us reach, both in our own minds and in reality, the sense that India will truly be a developed country by the time of its centenary,” said Doraiswami.

 

“Self-belief underlies much of it. In India, tremendous things are occurring, and we must have faith that we can bring about even bigger things. The G20, in my opinion, represents the notion that we can organize, arrange, and host the most significant political and economic gathering in the world. It’s been a really interesting G20 in terms of the bandobast and presenting the nation. A distinctively prime ministerial endeavor, as we’ve sought to do, is to highlight all of India at each meeting, he said.

 

An international meeting of the world’s leading developed and emerging economies is known as the G20 or Group of 20.

 

Around two-thirds of the world’s population, over 75% of the worldwide commerce, and nearly 85% of the global GDP are all represented by the members.

 

Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union make up the group.

 

When asked about Rishi Sunak’s impending trip to New Delhi for the leaders’ summit next month and the buzz in the UK media about a magnificent greeting planned for his maiden trip to the nation as the British Prime Minister, the ambassador simply said, “Wait and see.”

 

“Let’s see how we can best plan everything for him around the G20. It’s a brief, one- or two-day event… Of course, there will also be bilateral meetings and other events. We thus expect that his visit would motivate him to search for another visit,” he said.