India will provide voice to issues of global south during G20 presidency: Govt

New Delhi: India’s endeavour during its G20 presidency would be to build consensus within the grouping, raise key issues of the global south and highlight the country’s 3Ds — development, democracy and diversity, the government-informed Lok Sabha on Wednesday.

In a statement in Lok Sabha on the latest developments in India’s foreign policy, Minister of State for External Affairs Meenakashi Lekhi also said the country’s advocacy of dialogue and diplomacy in the context of the Ukraine conflict has been “consistent and persistent”.

At the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had voiced global sentiment when he declared that this was not an era of war, she said.

“His (the PM’s) statement was in the context of the Ukraine conflict, where our advocacy of dialogue and diplomacy has been consistent and persistent. It has a larger resonance as well. We have also extended support on specific concerns such as supply of food grains and fertilisers, as indeed on security of nuclear installations,” Lekhi said.