Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe will probably be amongst 20 world leaders who will take part within the “Voice of the Global South Summit” (VGSS) subsequent week hosted by India nearly. The summit will happen on January 12 and January 13 and will probably be chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. 

Other than leaders from the neighbourhood, leaders from 5 nations from Africa (Angola, Ghana, Nigeria, Mozambique, Senegal), three nations from the ASEAN grouping (Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam) will probably be current, together with leaders of Uzbekistan, Mongolia, UAE, Papua New Guinea. 

Remember, Senegal’s Macky Sall is the pinnacle of the African Union whereas Thailand is the chair of BIMSTEC grouping. The summit could have 10 classes, with the opening and shutting leaders’ session chaired by PM Modi and the remaining eight on the ministerial degree. 

The ministerial classes will probably be at Finance, Environment, Foreign, Energy, Health, Education, and Trade ranges. The theme of the Inaugural Leaders’ session is “Voice of Global South – for Human-Centric Development” and that of the Concluding Leaders’ session is “Unity of Voice-Unity of Purpose”. 

Four classes can be held on twelfth January, and 6 classes on thirteenth January. All in all, New Delhi has prolonged invitations to 120 nations.

Indian Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra in a presser on Friday stated that the summit will “bring together countries of the global south and share perspectives and priorities” amid Covid pandemic fallout, international value rise in the case of meals, gasoline, fertilisers resulting from Russia-Ukraine battle. 

The summit feeds into the G20 Summit which India will probably be internet hosting later this yr in September. The international secretary highlighted, “The valuable inputs generated from the partner countries receive due cognizance globally and India’s ongoing Presidency of the G20 provides us with a special and strong opportunity to channelise these inputs into the deliberation and discourse of G20.” 

India took over the Presidency of the grouping on December 1, 2022, and can host the summit for the primary time because the emergence of the grouping after the 2008 monetary disaster.

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