Ajit Karn
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar stated in Kampala, Uganda, that India is attempting to include concerns of the Global South in the G20 framework during its presidency.
Jaishankar, who is visiting Uganda and Mozambique, addressed the Ugandan Parliamentary Forum on Indian Affairs on Tuesday.
“We (India) are doing it differently in the sense that no other chair of the G-20 has made an endeavor to consult all the countries of the Global South. So, what are your interests, and what do you desire? Which of your concerns may we raise on your behalf? In January, we went through a very, very detailed and very exhaustive exercise, he said.
The External Affairs Minister also stated that India intends to use its G-20 presidency to refocus the influential forum on its mandate of addressing global growth and development issues.
“Uganda was also a participant, of course. And today, we’d like to use the G-20 presidency to really get that forum to focus on what is its remedy, what was its mandate, namely global growth and global development issues, which are extremely essential to you. Green growth issues, debt issues, health issues, SDG issues, the development agenda, and digital delivery issues. These are the issues on which we would like the G-20 to concentrate, according to Jaishankar.
India assumed the G20 presidency for one year beginning on December 1 of last year. This year’s G20 summit will take place in New Delhi on September 9-10.
The External Affairs Minister reaffirmed India’s complete support for Uganda’s very successful Non-Alignment Movement chairmanship.
The Non-Aligned Movement will be chaired by Uganda on behalf of Africa between 2022 and 2025.
The position of NAM chair alternates every three years at summit conferences. The movement’s chair is assisted by both the outgoing and incoming chairmen. This structure, according to the movement, represents its past, present, and future.
Jaishnkar also announced that he will participate in the inaugural of the first campus of the National Forensic Research University in Uganda.
The minister, who is visiting two countries between April 10 and 15, participated in the virtual groundbreaking ceremony for solar-powered conduit drinking water supply systems funded by India Exim Bank on Tuesday in Uganda.
Jaishankar tweeted, “This project will provide a safe and sustainable water supply to 500,000 Ugandans across 20 rural districts.”
Jaishankar later encountered the Indian commercial community in Uganda.
“Appreciated their contribution to the bilateral relationship between India and Uganda. Jaishankar tweeted that he had “encouraged them to continue building the bridge of our business ties that capture the growth and development of the two countries.”
Jaishankar will be in Mozambique between the 13th and 15th of April. The MEA release stated, “This will be the first-ever visit by an External Affairs Minister of India to the Republic of Mozambique.”
During the visit, he will meet with Mozambique’s senior leadership and co-chair the 5th Session of the Joint Commission Meeting with Veronica Macamo, Mozambique’s foreign minister.
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The EAM is anticipated to meet with a number of other ministers and representatives of the Mozambican National Assembly.
