Adding the African Union as a member of G20 was among India's key aims to achieve during the ongoing G20 summit. In June 2023, Prime Minister Modi said that he had written to G20 counterparts to provide the African Union with full membership at this G20 Summit.
Margaret Macleod referred to US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan's remarks that consensus on Delhi declaration would be difficult but it is not impossible. She said that they will make efforts to get the agreement done.
"I hope we have a good G20. It is a difficult situation as, for the first time, there are global events on which countries don't actually agree. But many of the other issues that are being discussed are very relevant. I certainly think we are looking at the right issues. The G20 is more like
The United States hoped that all the countries would sign the joint declaration in this week's G20 Summit in India but also signalled that it is difficult to get a consensus as countries like Russia and China are less likely to "sign on" it.
The United States on Tuesday said that gaining "absolute consensus on a statement on Ukraine" is challenging at the G20 Summit and expected that Russia will not change from its position in the Ukraine war.
Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said that G20 Digital Economy Ministers reached a ground-breaking consensus under India’s Presidency on how to effectively shape digital public infrastructure (DPI) of the future.
Mao Ning said China hopes that the G20 Summit scheduled to be held in New Delhi from September 9-10 will form consensus and send out a message of confidence and promote shared prosperity and development.
The G20 Trade and Investment Ministers’ meeting concluded today at Jaipur with a groundbreaking consensus on five concrete and action-oriented deliverables that have been adopted in the outcome document.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing the open plenary session of the 15th BRICS Summit emphasized that India fully supports the expansion of BRICS and we welcome moving forward with consensus on this.
India took the lead in forging consensus on membership criteria and in the selection of new members for the BRICS during the Leaders' Retreat, according to the sources.
India is seeking consensus among G20 nations against fugitive economic offenders to ensure faster extradition of fugitive economic offenders and recovery of assets, both domestically as well as abroad.