President to participate in India-hosted Voice of Global South Summit - report

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe will be amongst 20 world leaders who will take part in
the Voice of the Global South Summit (VGSS) next week hosted by India essentially, Indian media reported
The summit will take place on January 12 and January 13 and will be chaired by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, according to a report on
WION
Besides leaders from the neighbourhood, leaders from 5 nations from Africa (Angola, Ghana, Nigeria, Mozambique, Senegal), 3 nations from the
ASEAN grouping (Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam) will exist, together with leaders of Uzbekistan, Mongolia, UAE, Papua New Guinea
Senegals Macky Sall is the head of the African Union while Thailand is the chair of BIMSTEC organizing
The top will have 10 sessions, with the opening and closing leaders session chaired by PM Modi and the remaining 8 at the ministerial level
The ministerial sessions will be at Finance, Environment, Foreign, Energy, Health, Education, and Trade levels
The theme of the Inaugural Leaders session is Voice of Global South - for Human-Centric Development which of the Concluding Leaders
session is Unity of Voice-Unity of Purpose
4 sessions would be held on 12th January, and 6 sessions on 13th January
All in all, New Delhi has actually extended welcomes to 120 countries.Indian Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra in a presser on Friday said that
the summit will bring together countries of the worldwide south and share point of views and concerns amid Covid pandemic fallout, global
rate increase when it pertains to food, fuel, fertilisers due to Russia-Ukraine dispute
The top feeds into the G20 Summit which India will be hosting later on this year in September
The foreign secretary highlighted, The important inputs produced from the partner nations get due cognizance internationally and Indias
ongoing Presidency of the G20 provides us with a special and strong chance to channelise these inputs into the deliberation and discourse of
G20
India took control of the Presidency of the grouping on December 1, 2022, and will host the top for the very first time because the
emergence of the grouping after the 2008 monetary crisis.Source: WION -- Agencies
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