For a long time, India has advocated an equitable illustration for the underrepresented areas of the world on the high-tables of among the world’s most vital multilateral boards such because the United Nations Security Council.

So when Delhi presided over G20 summit on September 9, it started the inaugural session with a bang, fairly actually. 

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Right in the beginning of the inaugural session of the summit, host India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi hammered the gavel and embraced African Union’s chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat into the fold of G20, revamping the discussion board of the world’s wealthiest economies with the thought of reformed and inclusive multilateralism. 

Furthermore, the primary day of the summit additionally noticed the launch of the India-Middle East-Europe economic corridor — which the US President Joe Biden hailed as ‘an actual massive deal’. 

In the efforts in the direction of combating Climate Change, the unanimously adopted New Delhi declaration referred to as for the phasing out and rationalisation of fossil gasoline subsidies and commits to lowering “unabated coal power” whereas boosting clear power technology.

Besides, the Global Biofuels Alliance was launched with India, Brazil and the United States as its founding members, with sixteen different international locations and twelve worldwide organisations agreeing to hitch the group in New Delhi.

These successes have been not too long ago hailed by India’s External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar as ‘partly evolutionary, and partly revolutionary’.

In an interview with WION’s diplomatic correspondent Sidhant Sibal, Jaishankar acknowledged G20 Summit as a mark of an ‘inflection point’ for a rising India.

By the top of the summit, Modi concluded with a proposal to carry a digital G20 session to take inventory of the progress on issues agreed upon within the Delhi declaration. The one that’s at the moment being hosted on November 22.