United Nations Resident Coordinator in India, Shombi Sharp, while lauding India’s G20 presidency and its New Delhi Declaration which emphasised achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), said “I’d like to call it an SDG20 Presidency”.
Referring to the full consensus achieved by New Delhi Declaration, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that many people were surprised when India was able to get everybody together.
Underlining the many aspects of India’s G20 presidency that the world might "find useful", External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said New Delhi has walked the talk when it comes to South-South cooperation.
In an exclusive interview with ANI, Tandi Dorji said, "India has always been a very strong partner for Bhutan and will continue to wish India the best. And we hope that India will continue to be the voice of the Global South."
In an interview with ANI, Sharp said, "We also were very pleased on behalf of the United Nations in India, to launch or to have an exchange of Letter of Intent with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a brand new partnership to help amplify Indian South South Cooperation.
While addressing the India-UN for Global South: Delivering for Development in New York, Tandi Dorji said that G20 Summit marked a significant milestone with inclusion of African Union as the permanent member.
In his address at India-UN for Global South: Delivering for Development in New York, Jaishankar called inclusion of African Union in the G20 as one of the important outcomes of the G20 Summit.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday interacted with the 'Team G20' at Bharat Mandapam here and said the credit for the success of the G20 Summit goes to them.