S Jaishankar Talks About "Challenges" Of India's G20 Presidency At UN
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday (local time) called India's G20 Presidency challenging due to a "very sharp East-West polarization and a very deep North-South divide." In his address at India-UN for Global South: Delivering for Development in New York, S Jaishankar began his speech by speaking about India's G20 Presidency and recently held the G20 Summit. He said that India was very determined to ensure that India's G20 Presidency was able to get back to its core agenda. "Your presence means a lot to us. It also expresses the sentiments that you feel for India and underlines the import of South-South cooperation. We meet just a few weeks after the New Delhi G20 Summit, a summit which took place on the theme of 'One Earth, One Family, One Future," S Jaishankar said. "Now, it was a challenging summit. It was actually a challenging presidency, and it was challenging because we were confronting a very sharp East-West polarizati...