NEW DELHI (AP) – India will host a virtual summit of over 120 developing countries next week to share their economic woes in deliberations during its Group of 20 (G20) presidency this year, a top foreign ministry official said on Friday.
The summit on January 12 and 13 will take up key issues such as the worldwide impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; the ongoing conflict in Ukraine decreasing access and affordability of food, fertiliser and fuel; and mounting debt and inflationary pressures taking a toll on developing countries’ economies, said Vinay Kwatra, the top bureaucrat of India’s foreign ministry.
India endeavours, he said, to provide a common platform to deliberate on the concerns, interests and priorities of developing countries and exchange ideas and solutions to various problems.
More details on Sunday’s Borneo Bulletin
