G20 Summit 2023 Updates: Will work collectively to ensure world peace, says PM Modi ahead of G20 Summit

G20 Summit 2023 India Live Updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised on social media that all the nations attending the G20 Summit would cooperate to uphold international peace as the summit gets underway tomorrow in New Delhi.

“During the G20 Summit, I will be chairing sessions on ‘One Earth’, ‘One Family’ and ‘One Future’, covering a range of issues of prime concern to the world community. We will collectively work to further gender equality, women empowerment and ensure world peace,” he said.

Earlier in the day, Amitabh Kant, the G20 Sherpa, said that India’s presidency and the New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration will be the voice of the Global South and developing nations in the years to come.

Who has arrived and who is yet to come?

While US President Joe Biden, Chinese Premier Li Qiang, and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese are yet to arrive, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his British counterpart Rishi Sunak have already touched down in the nation’s capital.

Pedro Sanchez, the acting prime minister of Spain, will not attend the G20 conference in New Delhi because of a positive Covid-19 test. Today’s arrivals in Delhi include PMs Giorgia Meloni of Italy, HH Shaikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the UAE, Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and Emmanuel Macron of France.

What are the restrictions in Delhi?

Restrictions are in place around the capital, and Delhi is now decorated to welcome international delegates from participating countries (which means no Swiggy/Zomato this weekend). The world leaders will encounter a majestic statue of Nataraja, Lord Shiva performing his cosmic dance, at Bharat Mandapam. At 27 feet tall, it towers above the location of the G20 Summit.

‘Only together can we get the job done’: Rishi Sunak after reaching Delhi

As British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reached Delhi for the G20 summit, here’s what he had to say: “I’ve landed in Delhi ahead of the G20 summit. I am meeting world leaders to address some of the challenges that impact every one of us. Only together can we get the job done,” he wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

Watch: National Gallery of Modern Art ready to welcome G20 guests

India’s G20 presidency voiced concerns of Global South: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised on social media that all the nations attending the G20 Summit would cooperate to uphold international peace as the summit gets underway tomorrow in New Delhi.

“During the G20 Summit, I will be chairing sessions on ‘One Earth’, ‘One Family’ and ‘One Future’, covering a range of issues of prime concern to the world community. We will collectively work to further gender equality, women empowerment and ensure world peace,” he said.

He added: “Rooted in our cultural ethos, India’s G20 Presidency theme, ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam – One Earth, One Family, One Future’ deeply resonates with our worldview, that the whole world is one family. India’s G20 Presidency has been inclusive, ambitious, decisive, and action-oriented. We actively voiced the developmental concerns of the Global South.”

In pics: Japan PM Fumio Kishida, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres arrive in Delhi

Chinese discuss growth, development from their perspective: Amitabh Kant

Speaking about the absence of Chinese President Xi Jinping, G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant said: “China is a multilateral player. In multilateral discussions, the issues are very different from bilateral issues and the Chinese discuss issues of growth, and development from their perspective. The challenge about any multilateral discussion is that you have to bring consensus across every issue as every country has a veto power. We’ve been able to work with every single country and bring them on board…”

Our emphasis is on tech linked to digital public infra: Harsh Vardhan Shringla

Addressing the media a day ahead of the G20 Summit, chief coordinator Harsh Vardhan Shringla says: “There will be a strong emphasis on technology, especially ones that are linked to digital public infrastructure. And in that context, we will have a few exhibitions at the media centre… We have a Reserve Bank of India innovation hub which will display technologies in the fintech sector which has not yet been introduced to the public domain.”

Additionally he said, “These are still in the pilot stages. One of them is the central bank digital currency, through which even international media who are here, who don’t have bank accounts in India, will be able to get some money in their mobile wallets and will be able to use that digitally to buy products in our crafts mela…”

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