G-20 Summit Day 2 Live: Prime Minister Narendra Modi poses with US President Joe Biden and Indonesia President Joko Widodo in Bali on Nov. 16. (Twitter/narendramodi)G-20 Summit 2022 Day 2 News Live Updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with world leaders including US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron, visited and planted mangroves in Bali’s largest mangrove forest Taman Hutan Raya Ngurah Rai on Wednesday. PM Modi is in Indonesia to attend the G-20 Summit. After the meeting in Indonesia, India will take over the Group of 20 presidency for one year.
The meeting took place amid worries of an escalation in the Russia-Ukraine war after two people were killed in a missile blast in Poland. While Polish Foreign Ministry said that the missile was from Russia, US officials said that initial assessment suggests it was fired by Ukrainian forces towards an incoming Russian missile.
Addressing the G-20 Summit in Bali Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for a ceasefire and diplomacy in the Russia-Ukraine war. He also spoke of the challenges presented by climate change, the Covid pandemic, and the importance of India being energy secure. “India’s energy security is important for global growth, as it is the world’s fastest-growing economy,” said PM Modi.
Leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) major economies made a declaration Wednesday saying they "deplore in the strongest terms" Russia's aggression against Ukraine.
The declaration, approved on Wednesday, said most members strongly condemned the war in Ukraine but there were other views. It said international law must be upheld and the threat of the use of nuclear weapons was inadmissible and welcomed the Black Sea grain initiative. (Reuters)
At the 27th Session of the Conference of Parties (COP27), this year’s UN climate summit, the Mangrove Alliance for Climate (MAC) was launched with India as a partner on Tuesday (November 8). The move, in line with India’s goal to increase its carbon sink, will see New Delhi collaborating with Sri Lanka, Indonesia and other countries to preserve and restore the mangrove forests in the region.
Attending the event in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt on Tuesday, Union Minister for Environment Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav said that India is home to one of the largest remaining areas of mangroves in the world — the Sundarbans — and has years of expertise in restoration of mangrove cover that can be used to aid global measures in this direction.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with other world leaders, visited and planted mangroves in Bali's largest mangrove forest Taman Hutan Raya Ngurah Rai on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit Bali on Wednesday.
Modi is in Bali to attend the G20 summit which opened in Bali on Tuesday. Modi was welcomed at the summit venue by Indonesian President Joko Widodo, ahead of the formal opening of the summit.
He had informal interactions with US President Joe Biden, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, French President Emmanuel Macron and several other global leaders on Tuesday on the sidelines of the summit. (PTI)
➡️Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raised "serious concerns" over suspected domestic interference by China in his first talks with President Xi on Tuesday in more than three years, a Canadian government source said.
➡️ Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed global and regional developments in a meeting with Biden and also exchanged courtesies with China's Xi at the end of a dinner in the first such meeting since deadly border clashes in mid-2020.
➡️ South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol called for China to play a bigger role in reining in North Korea's nuclear and missile provocations, his office said, after talks with Xi.
➡️ Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Xi signalled they would seek to move past years of disagreements after the first formal meeting between leaders of the two countries since 2016.
➡️ Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Biden discussed bilateral relations, including trade and security issues, the Turkish presidency said.
➡️ British Prime Minister will meet his Indian counterpart at the summit and set out a professional exchange scheme, his office said, with talks also planned with China's Xi for a "frank and constructive relationship." (Reuters)
IN THEIR first meeting in public view since the India-China border standoff began in 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping shook hands and spoke to each other at the G20 summit in Bali on Tuesday.
While there was no substantive readout on their conversation — captured by the cameras at the G20 summit dinner —sources said the “Prime Minister and President Xi Jinping, who were both attending the G20 dinner hosted by the Indonesian President, exchanged courtesies at the conclusion of the dinner”.
The UK's international reputation has taken "a bit of a knock" this year, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Tuesday, as he vowed to restore economic stability.
In an interview with the BBC here on the sidelines of the G20 Summit, Sunak said tax rises and spending cuts in Thursday's Autumn Statement were needed to reduce rising inflation and UK public debt. But he promised the decisions would be taken in a "fair" way, and everyone would benefit from reduced debt levels.
“Obviously our international reputation took a bit of a knock as a result of some of the things that happened more recently,” he told the BBC. --PTI
Addressing the Indian diaspora in Indonesia, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday said: "We are connected by shared heritage and culture."
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday met US President Joe Biden on the margins of G-20 summit in Bali, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said. Modi and Biden reviewed the deepening of India-US partnership including cooperation in several sectors like critical and emerging technologies, and expressed satisfaction about close cooperation between India and US in new groupings such as Quad and I2U2, reported PTI.
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➡️ Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said China and Australia needed to work towards a stable and prosperous Indo-Pacific as he sat down with Xi for the first such bilateral meeting since 2016.
➡️ British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak extended his support for Ukraine at the G20 while confirming a long-planned order for warships from BAE Systems.
➡️ Europe will engage with China but needs to "rebalance" the relationship to avoid becoming too reliant on the country for areas like innovative technology, European Council President Charles Michel said.
➡️ South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol is due to hold talks with Xi on Tuesday while Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is expected to meet Xi on Thursday on the sidelines of an APEC summit in Thailand.
➡️ Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is also attending the summit. He is due to visit other Asian states, state media said, without giving details.
➡️ Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has cancelled his meetings after testing positive for COVID-19, according to a statement on his Facebook page. (Reuters)
Stressing that the challenges for the poor citizens of every country are more severe due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the developments in Ukraine, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday called the crisis of essential goods and lack of financial capacity of the poor a “double whammy”.
Addressing the session on “food and energy security” at the G-20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, Tuesday, Modi said that the G-20 leaders have to find a way to return to the path of ceasefire and diplomacy in Ukraine.
“The current shortage of fertilizers in terms of food security is also a huge crisis. Today's fertilizer shortage is tomorrow's food crisis, for which the world will not have a solution,” said the PM while asking the world leaders to build a mutual agreement to maintain the supply chain of both manure and food grains stable.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Rishi Sunak for the first time following Sunak's appointment as the UK Prime Minister. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the Bali G-20 summit.
The Bali summit has three key priorities.
1. Global Health Architecture: This involves deliberations towards strengthening global health resilience and making the global health system more inclusive, equitable, and responsive to crises.
2. Digital Transformation: Deliberations here have centred on achieving the full potential of rapid digitalisation of the global economy by creating a new landscape of cooperation among nations.
3. Sustainable Energy Transition: Under this rubric, the discussions have focussed on ways to accelerate the transition towards cleaner energy sources. In particular, since any such transition requires substantial investments, the efforts have been focussed on finding a platform for such investments.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday shared a light moment with US President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia.
Speaking at the G20 summit in Bali, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressed the importance of India being energy secure.
"India's energy-security is important for global growth, as it is the world's fastest-growing economy," said PM Modi. "We must not promote any restrictions on the supply of energy and stability in the energy market should be ensured."
"India is committed to clean energy and environment; by 2030, half of our electricity will be generated from renewable sources," he added. (PTI)
Speaking at the G20 summit in Bali, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for an end to hostilities in Ukraine.
"I have repeatedly said that we have to find a way to return to the path of ceasefire and diplomacy in Ukraine," PM Modi said, adding that the onus of creating a new world order for the post-Covid period "lies on our shoulders."
The need of the hour is to show concrete and collective resolve to ensure peace, harmony and security in world, he said. (PTI)
Speaking of the importance of institutions like the UN and G-20, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said: "We should not hesitate to acknowledge that multilateral institutions like the UN have been unsuccessful in addressing global challenges."
Today world has greater expectations from G-20, and the relevance of our group has become more significant, he said of the G20 grouping. (PTI)
Continuing his address at the G20 summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that global supply chains are in ruins.
'There is a crisis of essentials, and essential goods all over the world,' he said. He added that the challenges faced by the poor citizens of every country are more severe.
PM Narendra Modi speaks at G-20 summit: "Today, the world has greater expectations from G-20; relevance of our group has become more significant."
He also complimented Indonesia, the host for this edition of the summit, for leadership of G20 in a challenging global environment. PM Modi also cited climate change, Covid pandemic and Ukraine as important issues of the time.
(PTI)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday attended the G20 Summit and called for ceasefire and diplomacy in the Russia-Ukraine war, reported news agency ANI. PM Modi met with US President Joe Biden and French leader Emmanuel Macron as well.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with French President Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of the G20 summit on Tuesday.