and finally, throughout this week, we've been bringing you special reports looking at the year that's gone By the biggest international developments for India, one of the big highlights was the entire G 20 process will end left, right and centre tonight with the special report. G 20 maybe Hamara mantra One Earth, one family, one future. The 2023 meeting of world leaders from the Group of 20 nations. A moment of unity in a deeply fractured international space. India's moment to bring together disparate voices and ideologies and forge consensus on some of the most divisive issues facing the world. This was not any government event. It was mission driven with an all of India approach, the highest profile international gathering in the history of independent India. With over 200 meetings in 60 Indian cities in all 28 states and eight union territories, India's G 20 brought together multiple working tracks and engagement groups at an unprecedented size, scale and scope. When we took up the presidency, which was almost exactly a year ago, honestly, you know, people didn't have too much expectations of it. Now what we were able to do in our G 20 in terms of diplomacy was actually to bridge all these divides to find a common ground for countries who were otherwise arguing among themselves who found their positions very difficult to reconcile. But we were able to bridge. While China's XI chose not to attend and Russian President Vladimir Putin couldn't because of charges he faced linked to the war in Ukraine, all other key international leaders were in D and the end result defied expectations. May is, declares a of King Gos cara. A unanimous adoption of the G 20 New Delhi leaders declaration. All 83 paragraphs were passed unanimously. There was no footnote or chair summary With India's negotiators wading into the vexed issue of the Russia Ukraine war to find language that worked for everyone, negotiations went down to the wire close to 200 hours of nonstop negotiations and, uh uh, you know, the Bali para had broken down. We were struggling with it for nine months. So in the sofa talk meeting, uh, we just took a plain screen and I scribbled down about 15 principles, which we should follow, and then all the Sherpas joined in and gave their perspective on it. and all of them. We took among the big takeaways to accelerate the full and effective implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, tripling renewable energy capacity globally by 2013, improving access to digital public infrastructure, the inclusion of the African Union as a permanent member of the G 20 and promoting the effective participation of women in the global economy. The end results were widely appreciated in a post on X, the US president Joe Biden wrote. At a moment when the global economy is suffering from the overlapping shocks of the climate, crisis, fragility and conflict, this year's summit proved that the G 20 can still drive solutions to our most pressing issues. Please allow me to thank Prime Minister Modi faithful to its principal. India did its utmost for its presidency of the G 20 to serve unity and peace. My bra kaspa the president Lula de Silva and now I. India has now handed over the G 20 presidency to Brazil, bringing an end to what Deri says has been an action oriented, decisive, inclusive and ambitious G 20 declaration, one that sets out a path to tackle global challenges for India. G 2020 23 has been a historic milestone in New Delhi's journey to assume greater prominence among the world's major powers. Vishnu Show for ND TV
