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The country’s G20 presidency has made “India world-ready and the world India-ready” even as New Delhi ensured that the concerns of the Global South constituted the core agenda of deliberations within the grouping, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday.
Jaishankar made the remarks while addressing a media briefing along with finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant, chief G20 coordinator Harsh Shringla and foreign secretary Vinay Kwatra, shortly after the Indian side clinched a consensus leaders’ declaration.
The leaders’ declaration focuses on promoting strong, sustainable, balanced and inclusive growth, seeks to accelerate progress on the sustainable development goals (SDGs), envisages a green development pact for a sustainable future, and endorses high-level principles on a lifestyle for sustainable development, he added.
The declaration also includes voluntary principles on green hydrogen, the Chennai principles for a sustainable resilient blue economy and the Deccan principles for food security and nutrition.
“The G20 has contributed to making India world-ready and the world India-ready,” he said. “No one left behind” has now become a goal for foreign policy as much as domestic policies, he pointed out.
News Mania Desk /Photo Credit -Sipra Das (National Consulting Photo Editor)
9th September 2023 ,New Delhi
