On Monday, S Jaishankar, the minister of external affairs of India, stated that instead of concentrating on which leaders planned to boycott the G20 Summit, attention should be given to the positions that other nations took on several ‘important problems’. He was speaking to the dooradarshan dialogue
Every G20 member, according to him, would contribute to world politics at the next summit.
In response to a question regarding the absence of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin from the G20 summit and its implications for India’s role as a mediator between the North and the South in this rising polarization, Jaishankar stated, “At the end of the day, countries are represented by whoever they have chosen to represent them so the levels of representations do not become the final determinant of a country’s position.”
“So I would argue that the actual problem is what position they take when they enter, rather than necessarily focusing on which countries elected to come at what level. For the results it generated, it is really what we will remember most about this G20, he continued.
Li Qiang will attend the 18th G20 Summit, which will take place in New Delhi, India, on September 9 and 10, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated on Monday.
Premier of the State Council Li Qiang will attend the 18th G20 Summit, which will take place in New Delhi, India, on September 9 and 10, at the request of the government of the Republic of India, according to a statement from the foreign ministry’s spokeswoman, Mao Ning.But there was no explanation about the abscence of Xi’s
Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, already said that he would skip the meeting in India.Lavrov will attend the summit in place of Putin, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced, and is scheduled to participate in two plenary sessions on September 9 and 10. On the margins of the summit, Lavrov is planned to have a number of bilateral discussions and interactions.
Jaishankar added, “I’m very confident you know, whatever the levels of representation, that every G20 member will come to this meeting very seriously in the mode that they have to make their contribution to what is an important inflection point today in global politics.” in his remarks on Doordarshan.
