The G20 Leaders’ Summit will conclude in Johannesburg, South Africa, today. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate in the third session of the summit, themed “A Fair and Just Future for All – Critical Minerals, Decent Work, and Artificial Intelligence. Mr Modi reached Johannesburg on Friday on a three-day visit to South Africa to participate in the G20 Summit hosted on African soil for the first time.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will join his counterparts and intervene in the third session of the G20 Summit today. Before the session, Prime Minister Modi will attend the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Leaders’ Meeting. IBSA is a unique trilateral forum bringing together three major democracies and emerging economies from Asia, South America, and Africa. India, Brazil, and South Africa share common developmental priorities and are pluralistic, multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, and multi-religious societies. On the sidelines of the Summit today, Prime Minister Modi is scheduled to hold bilateral meetings with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Taka, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Later, in the evening, PM Modi will depart for New Delhi.
Meanwhile, briefing the media last night, Secretary (Economic Relations) in the Ministry of External Affairs, Sudhakar Dalela, who also oversees G20 affairs, said that under the overarching theme of solidarity, equality and sustainability, this year’s G20 has delivered a strong message on four key priorities identified by the South African presidency. These include strengthening disaster resilience and response, ensuring debt sustainability for low-income countries, harnessing critical minerals for sustainable economic growth, and mobilizing finance for a just energy transition. He noted that several initiatives and outcomes shaped during India’s G20 Presidency have continued to evolve, gather momentum, and translate into concrete progress across the grouping, and have been effectively carried forward by South Africa during its presidency.
