G20 meeting should solve all accumulated problems-PM India
2023.03.02 02:35
G20 meeting should solve all accumulated problems-PM India
By Ray Johnson
Budrigannews.com – As he opened a meeting that appears to be dominated by Russia’s year-long war in Ukraine, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged foreign ministers from the Group of 20 (G20) nations to find common ground on global issues.
India, which is in charge of the bloc this year and refuses to assign blame to Russia, has sought a diplomatic resolution and increased its purchases of Russian oil dramatically.
However, European and American delegates attending the meeting of foreign ministers in New Delhi have reiterated their belief that Russia is to blame for the conflict, and Germany has stated that it will use the meeting to combat Russian “propaganda.”
Russia said it would use the meeting to tell the world who was to blame for the world’s political and economic problems, according to Moscow.
As the talks started, Modi said in a video message, “You are meeting at a time of deep global divisions.” We shouldn’t let problems that we can’t solve together get in the way of better things.”
The meeting of the foreign ministers comes just a few days after the G20 finance chiefs’ meeting, which was also dominated by war. India issued a “chair’s summary and outcome document” rather than a joint communiqué at that meeting’s conclusion due to a lack of agreement among the group to condemn Russia.
Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra told reporters on the sidelines of the meeting that Russia was solely responsible for the war and that sanctions must continue.
Catherine Colonna, the French foreign minister, added that Russia must be held accountable by the G20 for the “negative consequences for almost every country on the planet.”
She stated, “We must provide solutions that protect the most vulnerable, rather than allowing them to suffer from Russia’s war.”
40 delegations are attending the meeting in New Delhi, some of which are led by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang.
Blinken stated on Wednesday that he did not intend to meet either minister. Ukraine and the United States’ claim that a Chinese spy balloon had drifted over North America last month have strained relations between Washington and Beijing.
“Questions relating to food, energy, and fertiliser security, the impact that the conflict has on these economic challenges that we face” would also receive “due focus,” India, the host nation, stated.
