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India-Middle East-Europe connectivity corridor to be launched soon: Sources

"In the coming time, India will be a medium for economic integration between West Asia and Europe," says PM Modi while addressing the PGII conference with #G20India2023 leaders.

On New Delhi G-20 Leaders' Summit Declaration Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte says, "I think it is very good that we came to a final conclusion."

On the Russia-Ukraine war, he says, "I think the texts are manageable and acceptable for everybody."

G-20 in India: US President Joe Biden says, "This is a real big deal. I want to thank PM. One Earth, One Family, One Future that's the focus of this G 20 Summit. And in many ways, it's also the focus of this partnership that we're talking about today. Building sustainable, resilient infrastructure, making quality infrastructure investments and creating a better future... Last year, we came together as one to commit to this vision. And this afternoon I want to highlight the key ways in which the United States and our partners are working to make this a reality. Economic corridor. You're going to hear that phrase more than once, I expect, over the next decade. As we work to address infrastructure gaps across low-middle-income countries, we need to maximize the impact of our investments. That's why a few months ago announced that the United States will work with our partners to invest in economic corridors."

 G-20 in India: PM Narendra Modi launches 'Global Biofuels Alliance' in the presence of US President Joe Biden, President of Brazil Luiz Inacio, President of Argentina, Alberto Fernández and Prime Minister of Italy Giorgia Meloni.

G-20 in India: PM Narendra Modi launched 'Global Biofuels Alliance', in Delhi

On being asked about Cryptocurrency, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman says, " The FSP's report has concentrated more on regulation and IMF has looked at the macroeconomic implications. So, G 20 members will go through the synthesis paper in detail, there is one more meeting under our presidency for the finance track in Marrakesh...there the FSP and IMF reports will be discussed. So it is up to G 20 membership to take a call on how it wants to move forward on it (Crypto)..."

On African Union becoming a member of the G20, EAM Dr S Jaishankar says, "Last year during the Bali Summit, Senegal President Macky Sall who was President of the African Union at that time came to Indonesia's President and PM (Modi). He complained about the G20 membership...during that time, PM (Modi) had assured the (African Union President ) that under the Indian G 20 presidency, it would certainly be done. And this is the guarantee of Modi. And you have seen that he has delivered this assurance that he had made. And during the BRICS summit, the then president came to the PM and he reminded him that you had assured us and you really impacted it."

Delhi: Mentioning the key achievements of the Indian Presidency in the finance track on Multilateral Development Banks (MDB), Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman says, "Fourth, endorsement for the G 20 roadmap for implementation of the recommendations of an independent panel on capital adequacy framework of the MDBs. So the Capital Adequacy Frameworks (CAF) recommendations are focused on enabling MDBs to use the existing resources effectively... The roadmap estimates that implementation of the CAF and the measures thereby will potentially yield additional lending headroom of approximately 200 billion USD over the next decade... So through these achievements, India has harnessed the opportunity provided by the G 20 presidency to effectively articulate and embed the priorities of the global south in the larger global conversation on the MDB reforms."

"On the Russia-Ukraine crisis, India worked very closely with Brazil, South Africa and Indonesia and it was the emerging markets that played a very key role. India worked with all the emerging markets which played a key role, there were very tough and ruthless negotiations which went on for several days nonstop. In the end, the issue was clinched because of the leadership of the PM...", says G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant