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New Delhi, Sept 9: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday announced the adoption of the New Delhi G20 Leadership Declaration. “There is good news. With everyone’s cooperation, consensus has been reached on the New Delhi G20 Leadership Declaration,” the Prime Minister said, reports The Indian Express.
The G20 admitted a new permanent member at its New Delhi Summit today: the African Union. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the two-day event, talking about human-centric development and the need to lessen the trust deficit in global supply chains, which came about as a result of the Covid-19 induced pandemic. He also assured all possible assistance to Morocco, where an earthquake took hundreds of lives this morning. At the Summit, Modi’s country card reads ‘Bharat’.
Modi earlier welcomed world leaders and foreign delegates as they arrived at New Delhi’s Bharat Mandapam for the Summit. The Summit began today, amid divisions in the grouping over the Russia-Ukraine war and China’s ambitions in the Indo-Pacific and the South China Sea. World leaders including US President Joe Biden, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Japan PM Fumio Kishida, Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reached the national capital on Friday.