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  • G20 Summit: PM Modi departs from Vatican City after his meeting with Pope Francis

    By ANI

    ROME: Prime Minister Narendra Modi departed from the Vatican City after his meeting with Pope Francis on Saturday ahead of the Group of 20 (G20) Summit.

    PM Modi was accompanied by National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval and External Affairs Minister (EAM) Dr S Jaishankar.

    The Vatican is a city-state surrounded by Rome and is the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church.

    Had a very warm meeting with Pope Francis. I had the opportunity to discuss a wide range of issues with him and also invited him to visit India. @Pontifex pic.twitter.com/QP0If1uJAC
    — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) October 30, 2021
    Prime Minister arrived in Italy on Friday to participate in the two-day G20 Summit. This summit will be the eighth G20 Summit attended by the Prime Minister.

    PM Modi will participate in the G20 opening session on Global Economy and Global Health.

    He is also scheduled to have a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and a meeting with the President of Indonesia Joko Widodo. PM Modi is expected to have a meeting with Singapore PM Lee Hosein Loong as well.

    In the evening, PM is scheduled to arrive at Terme di Diocleziano for a cultural programme. Later, there is a dinner planned for G20 leaders and partner countries.

    While briefing about the Prime Minister’s engagements in Italy, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Friday said that PM Modi will discuss the global economic situation, COVID-19 pandemic, sustainable development and climate change with G20 leaders.

    On Friday, PM Modi met with top European Union leaders and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi. They congratulated Prime Minister Modi for India’s excellent progress on the COVID-19 vaccination.

    Prime Minister also interacted with members of the Indian community-based in Italy and those who have a close association with India through spheres like academics.

    PM Modi will be in the capital city of Italy till October 31.

  • Oxfam calls for urgent G20 action to tackle vaccine inequality, climate change & economic recovery

    By PTI

    NE DELHI: Oxfam has called on G20 leaders to take urgent action to dramatically scale-up manufacturing and access to Covid vaccines around the world, promote a fair economic recovery, fight hunger and help the poorest countries adapt to climate change.

    The 2021 G20 Summit is scheduled to take place in Rome, Italy on October 30-31.

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also scheduled to visit the two-day summit.

    In a statement, Oxfam said leaders at the G20 Summit must tackle the unforgivable scandal of vaccine inequality and systemic mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has sparked an unprecedented wealth grab.

    “Rich countries originally promised that any successful vaccine would be a global public good and pledged 1.8 billion doses to developing countries. A year later, they have delivered just 261 million (14 per cent). While their own vaccination rates are high, at 63 per cent, just 1.8 per cent of people living in poorer parts of the world have been fully vaccinated,” the statement said.

    G20 leaders must take urgent action to dramatically scale-up manufacturing and access to Covid vaccines around the world, promote a fair economic recovery, fight hunger, lower dangerous greenhouse gas emissions, and help the poorest countries adapt to the climate change already happening, it said.

    “Meeting in Rome at such a time of public health and economic turmoil amid a worsening climate crisis, G20 leaders have a choice –either take urgent action against COVID-19, hunger, and climate change, or continue doing what they have been doing, talking some of the talk but walking none of the walk,” said Oxfam’s Senior Advisor Jorn Kalinski.

    Rather than supporting common-sense proposals by India and South Africa for trading nations to waive the intellectual property rights and patents on vaccine technology in order to increase production and lower vaccine costs for all, rich countries have instead hoarded more vaccine doses than they need and supported the big pharmaceutical companies to retain all of the vaccine science and know-how, Oxfam said.

    “None of us are safe from coronavirus until all of us are safe, but rich countries and pharmaceutical corporations have instead created a vaccine apartheid,” said Kalinski.

    “In Rome, G20 leaders must put aside their differences and start the process to share the rights and the technology to vaccines, and scaling-up manufacturing around the world to ensure everyone has access to them,” he added.

    The G20 is a leading global forum that brings together the world’s major economies. Its members account for over 80 per cent of the global Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 75 per cent of global trade and 60 per cent of the population of the planet.

  • PM Modi to visit Italy and the UK from October 29 to November 2; to attend G20, climate summits

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to pitch for a united global approach in dealing with the situation in Afghanistan and combating challenges of climate change and the coronavirus pandemic at the two-day G-20 Summit in Italy beginning October 30, people familiar with the development said on Sunday.

    The prime minister will be travelling to Rome and Glasgow from October 29 to November 2 to attend the 16th G-20 Summit and the World Leaders’ Summit of COP-26 respectively, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said.

    It said Modi will be participating in the 16th G-20 Summit in Rome from October 30-31 at the invitation of Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi.

    Italy has been holding the presidency of the G-20 since December last year.

    The G-20 is a leading global forum that brings together the world’s major economies.

    Its members account for more than 80 per cent of the global GDP, 75 per cent of global trade and 60 per cent of the population of the planet.

    The forum has met every year since 1999 and includes, since 2008, a yearly summit, with the participation of the respective heads of state and government.

    The MEA said India is scheduled to host the G-20 summit in 2023 for the first time.

    The Rome summit will be attended by heads of state and government of G-20 member countries, the European Union, and other invited countries and several international organisations.

    The G-20 leaders are expected to deliberate on a number of key challenges such as recovering from the coronavirus pandemic, addressing climate change and overcoming poverty and inequality in various parts of the world.

    The situation in Afghanistan is expected to figure prominently at the summit, said one of the people cited above.

    Prime Minister Modi is likely to present India’s perspective to combat the key challenges facing the globe and is expected to call for a united approach to the situation in Afghanistan as well to deal with the pandemic and climate change, they said.

    It will be the eighth G-20 summit Modi would be attending.

    The G-20 has emerged as the premier global forum for international economic cooperation.

    The forthcoming summit will be centred around the theme ‘People, Planet, Prosperity’, focussing on areas of recovery from the pandemic and strengthening of global health governance.

    It will also focus on economic recovery and resilience, climate change and energy transition, and sustainable development and food security, the MEA said in a statement.

    The prime minister will also hold several bilateral meetings, including with Draghi.

    From Rome, Modi will travel to Glasgow to attend the World Leader’s summit of the 26th Conference of Parties (COP-26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the MEA said.

    The prime minister is attending the climate summit at the invitation of his British counterpart Boris Johnson.

    The COP-26 is being held from October 31 to November 12 under the presidency of the UK which is partnering with Italy for the event.

    The MEA said the high-level segment of COP-26, titled the World Leaders’ Summit (WLS), will be held on November 1 to 2.

    The summit will be attended by heads of state and government of more than 120 countries.

    “The UNFCCC embodies the global will and vision to combat climate change. The periodic Conference of Parties to this Convention have emerged as global climate summits, providing an opportunity for stocktaking and for charting the way forward,” the MEA said.

    The prime minister last attended the COP-21 in Paris in 2015, when the Paris Agreement was concluded, and whose implementation commences this year.

    “At COP-26, the parties will work to achieve the completion of Paris Agreement implementation guidelines; the mobilisation of climate finance; actions to strengthen climate adaptation, technology development and transfer; and keeping in reach the Paris Agreement goals of limiting the rise in global temperatures,” it said.

    The MEA said Modi will hold numerous bilateral meetings on the sidelines of COP-26, including with Johnson.

    The COP-26 summit is being billed as one of the biggest ever congregations of world leaders and experts in combating climate change.

    On Thursday, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla, highlighting India’s climate action in meeting its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) related to the Paris climate agreement, said that New Delhi intends to go in with a strong message with full commitment to COP26.

    “We are perhaps the only G-20 country to have fulfilled our NDCs and outperformed them,” Shringla said in a virtual address at the India Global Forum.

  • PM Modi to visit Italy and the UK from October 29 to November 2; to attend G20, climate summits .

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to pitch for a united global approach in dealing with the situation in Afghanistan and combating challenges of climate change and the coronavirus pandemic at the two-day G-20 Summit in Italy beginning October 30, people familiar with the development said on Sunday.

    The prime minister will be travelling to Rome and Glasgow from October 29 to November 2 to attend the 16th G-20 Summit and the World Leaders’ Summit of COP-26 respectively, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said.

    It said Modi will be participating in the 16th G-20 Summit in Rome from October 30-31 at the invitation of Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi.

    Italy has been holding the presidency of the G-20 since December last year.

    The G-20 is a leading global forum that brings together the world’s major economies.

    Its members account for more than 80 per cent of the global GDP, 75 per cent of global trade and 60 per cent of the population of the planet.

    The forum has met every year since 1999 and includes, since 2008, a yearly summit, with the participation of the respective heads of state and government.

    The MEA said India is scheduled to host the G-20 summit in 2023 for the first time.

    The Rome summit will be attended by heads of state and government of G-20 member countries, the European Union, and other invited countries and several international organisations.

    The G-20 leaders are expected to deliberate on a number of key challenges such as recovering from the coronavirus pandemic, addressing climate change and overcoming poverty and inequality in various parts of the world.

    The situation in Afghanistan is expected to figure prominently at the summit, said one of the people cited above.

    Prime Minister Modi is likely to present India’s perspective to combat the key challenges facing the globe and is expected to call for a united approach to the situation in Afghanistan as well to deal with the pandemic and climate change, they said.

    It will be the eighth G-20 summit Modi would be attending.

    The G-20 has emerged as the premier global forum for international economic cooperation.

    The forthcoming summit will be centred around the theme ‘People, Planet, Prosperity’, focussing on areas of recovery from the pandemic and strengthening of global health governance.

    It will also focus on economic recovery and resilience, climate change and energy transition, and sustainable development and food security, the MEA said in a statement.

    The prime minister will also hold several bilateral meetings, including with Draghi.

    From Rome, Modi will travel to Glasgow to attend the World Leader’s summit of the 26th Conference of Parties (COP-26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the MEA said.

    The prime minister is attending the climate summit at the invitation of his British counterpart Boris Johnson.

    The COP-26 is being held from October 31 to November 12 under the presidency of the UK which is partnering with Italy for the event.

    The MEA said the high-level segment of COP-26, titled the World Leaders’ Summit (WLS), will be held on November 1 to 2.

    The summit will be attended by heads of state and government of more than 120 countries.

    “The UNFCCC embodies the global will and vision to combat climate change. The periodic Conference of Parties to this Convention have emerged as global climate summits, providing an opportunity for stocktaking and for charting the way forward,” the MEA said.

    The prime minister last attended the COP-21 in Paris in 2015, when the Paris Agreement was concluded, and whose implementation commences this year.

    “At COP-26, the parties will work to achieve the completion of Paris Agreement implementation guidelines; the mobilisation of climate finance; actions to strengthen climate adaptation, technology development and transfer; and keeping in reach the Paris Agreement goals of limiting the rise in global temperatures,” it said.

    The MEA said Modi will hold numerous bilateral meetings on the sidelines of COP-26, including with Johnson.

    The COP-26 summit is being billed as one of the biggest ever congregations of world leaders and experts in combating climate change.

    On Thursday, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla, highlighting India’s climate action in meeting its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) related to the Paris climate agreement, said that New Delhi intends to go in with a strong message with full commitment to COP26.

    “We are perhaps the only G-20 country to have fulfilled our NDCs and outperformed them,” Shringla said in a virtual address at the India Global Forum.

  • India to take part in environment ministers’ meet at G20 Summit on Thursday

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: India will participate in the environment ministers’ meeting at the 16th G20 Summit on Thursday.

    Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav will virtually take part in the two-day meeting, along with Minister of State for Environment Ashwini Choubey and senior officials, the environment ministry said in a tweet on Wednesday.

    “India to participate virtually in the #Environment Ministerial Meeting of the G20 countries on 22nd July 2021. #India shall be represented by a delegation led by Hon’ble Union Environment Minister, Shri @byadavbjp & Hon’ble MoS, Shri @AshwiniKChoubey & senior officers of @MoEFCC,” it said.

    The 16th G20 Summit under Italian Presidency is slated to revolve around its primary theme of “People, Planet’ and Prosperity”.