![]() ![]() “For the Global South, India’s presidency is seen as an opportunity with immense potential to address developmental needs, particularly as Brazil and South Africa are set to take over the presidency of the G20 from India in 2024 in 2025 respectively,” Hussain said. In preparation, he held a virtual “Voice of the Global South” summit in January and has emphasized issues critical to developing nations, including alternative fuels like hydrogen, resource efficiency, developing a common framework for digital public infrastructure and food security. Modi is hoping to use his country’s influence to bridge gaps between the wealthy nations that have been standing together to sanction Russia over the Ukraine war and the group of countries known as the Global South.Ībout half of the G20 countries are found in that group - depending on how one defines it - and Modi hopes to add the African Union as a bloc member. India also has historic ties with Moscow, but is on good terms with the U.S., too. That group agreed at its summit last month to invite six new countries to join.Ĭhina’s relations with India continue to be strained over border disputes, but Modi discussed the issue face-to-face with Xi at the BRICS summit and China’s Foreign Ministry said Beijing considers India-China relations “generally stable.” Russia and China did not indicate why their leaders are not going, but neither has traveled much recently and both seem to be putting a greater emphasis on the more like-minded BRICS group of nations. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping will not be attending the G20 themselves, instead sending lower-level officials. “It is very difficult now for any of these large-scale summits to avoid the major issues of the issues of the day, and these major issues are very polarizing - the war in Ukraine, tensions in the Indo-Pacific, even climate policy - the things that are both at the top of the global agenda but also very difficult to address.” “Having China and Russia in the room now is a very different question than it would have been a decade ago,” he said. ![]() Russia’s attack on Ukraine and China’s growing assertiveness in the Asia-Pacific region have added friction, pitting some of the most powerful G20 countries directly against each other diplomatically, Lesser said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the Bali summit by video last year, but Modi has made a point of not inviting the country to participate in this year’s event.Ĭanada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised Zelenskyy to keep Ukraine in the discussions, telling him in a video call that the leaders posted on Instagram: “I’m disappointed that you won’t be included but as you know, we will be speaking up strongly for you.”įounded in 1999, the G20 began with a focus on global economic challenges, but since then, geopolitical tensions have complicated its ability to work effectively, said Ian Lesser, vice president of the German Marshall Fund and director of its Brussels office. ![]() (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)Įuropean Council President Charles Michel told reporters Friday that it was important to give India space as it worked “actively, maybe sometimes discreetly, to maximize the chance for a communique.” Leaders of the Group of 20 are gathering in New Delhi this weekend for their annual summit. An Illuminated statue of Nataraja, the Hindu god of Dance, stands at the entrance of the main venue for the G20 summit in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Sept. ![]()
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