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<\/div>\nG20 Summit: The consensus document is a testimony to India’s leadership on the global stage, he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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While we had consensus on the most important issues facing mankind today — sustainable development, growth, reform of multilateral institutions, women-led development — the geopolitical issue of the Ukraine war threw a spanner in the works as the global ideological divide cuts across the G20, the Delhi Summit’s Chief Coordinator Harsh Vardhan Shringla said, explaining how India handled its year of presidency<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Speaking to NDTV, Mr Shringla said India is well-placed to tackle the issue as in addition to being a regular invitee to the G7 (an informal bloc of industrialised democracies – the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom) and a member of the Quad (a strategic security dialogue between Australia, India, Japan, and the United States), we are also members of the BRICS (a group of major emerging economies – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (a Eurasian political, economic, international security, and defence organisation established by China and Russia).<\/p>\n The fact that we got a consensus document with all partner countries agreeing to a formulation that suits their requirements is testimony to the importance of the G20 process, the need for a grouping like G20 to address global issues, and it’s also a testimony to India’s leadership on the global stage, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s own stature in that regard, Mr Shringla further said.<\/p>\n The geopolitical section of the Delhi declaration have a distinct imprint of India’s position on the issue — reference to the UN charter, international sovereignty and territorial integrity, looking at such issues through diplomacy and dialogue, and the position that today’s era is not an era of war — the G20 coordinator said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n