India to host virtual summit of over 120 developing nations - Jacksonville Journal-Courier

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ASHOK SHARMA, Associated Press

Jan. 6, 2023Updated: Jan. 6, 2023 7:18 a.m.

FILE- Archaeological Survey of India workers task the logo of G20 connected to Safdarjung's tomb to people India's presidency of G20, successful New Delhi, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. India volition big a virtual acme of implicit 120 processing countries adjacent week to stock and channelize their economical woes successful deliberations during its G20 presidency this year, a apical overseas ministry authoritative said connected Friday, Jan. 6, 2023.Manish Swarup/AP

NEW DELHI (AP) — India volition big a virtual acme of implicit 120 processing countries adjacent week to stock their economical woes successful deliberations during its G-20 presidency this year, a apical overseas ministry authoritative said Friday.

The acme connected Jan. 12 and 13 volition instrumentality up cardinal issues specified arsenic the worldwide interaction of the COVID-19 pandemic; the ongoing struggle successful Ukraine decreasing entree and affordability of food, fertilizer and fuel; and mounting indebtedness and inflationary pressures taking a toll connected processing countries’ economies, said Vinay Kwatra, the apical bureaucrat of India’s overseas ministry.

India endeavors, helium said, to supply a communal level to deliberate connected the concerns, interests and priorities of processing countries and speech ideas and solutions to assorted problems.

“India volition enactment to guarantee that the invaluable inputs generated from spouse countries person owed cognizance globally,” helium said.

Steering the Group of 20 starring affluent and processing nations' acme successful 2023, India is expected to usage the accidental to summation prominence successful planetary decision-making.

Asked whether India’s long-time rivals China and Pakistan volition beryllium participating successful the summit, Kwatra told reporters that invitations are being extended to much than 120 countries and his ministry would supply names aft information is confirmed.

He besides rejected a proposition that "The Voice of Global South Summit” adjacent week implies India is moving distant from aged associations similar the Non-Aligned Movement, a conjugation of mostly processing countries. India was a founding subordinate successful the aboriginal 1960s of NAM, which was not formally aligned with oregon against immoderate large powerfulness bloc.

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