PM Modi highlights concerns of Global South countries at G20 Summit

The countries of the Global South are most adversely impacted by the food, fuel and fertiliser crisis caused by global conflicts and G20 must give primacy to their concerns and priorities, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday.

In an address on the first day of the G20 summit, Modi complimented the Brazilian presidency of the grouping for taking forward the “people-centric decisions” taken at the bloc’s summit in New Delhi last year.

The Indian G20 presidency’s call for “One Earth, One Family, One Future continued to resonate at the Rio conversations, he said.

US President Joe Biden, Modi, Chinese President Xi Jinping, French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer are among the leaders attending the two-day summit at Rio de Janeiro’s Modern Art Museum.

“I would like to say that countries of the Global South are most adversely impacted by the food, fuel and fertiliser crisis caused by global conflicts,” he said.

“So our discussions can only be successful when we keep in mind the challenges and priorities of the Global South,” he added.

The prime minister made the remarks at the G20 session on ‘Social Inclusion and the Fight Against Hunger and Poverty’.