‘We know how to handle the world,’ says EAM Jaishankar on delivering consensus-based G20 statement
File photo of India's External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar
India's External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankarcredited Prime Minister Narendra Modi for India’s changed attitude at international fora, and areason for India finding its place at the high table of diplomacy.
In an interview with ANI, Jaishankar said, "It is a different world, a different India. It is a different Prime Minister. It is a different government. And that is why you have all that you haven't seen in the past."
When asked about a consensus on G-20 joint communique, Jaishankar said thatG-20 is a collective exercise.
"We will deal with it in that. Look, we are India. You know we are India. We know how to handle the world. Believe me, especially in the last ten years we have shown how we can handle the world," Jaishankar told news agency ANI ahead of G-20 summit in New Delhi.
Asked about Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov's comment that Russian wanted Ukraine crisis to be included in the declaration, and if it's the muscle flexing before the summit, Jaishankar said:"Well, that may be the way you would characterise it. I mean, for me, anybody would try to put across their national position, try to maximise their negotiating position if you would. I think you should wait and see what actually happens in the negotiation, not prejudge it purely in terms of what may be said on one occasion. And what the media interpretation of what was said on one occasion."
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Speaking on India taking up the voice of the Global South to G20, the minister said that no other presidency had aimed at getting developing countries together.
"No other G-20 presidency has tried to get together developing countries who are not on the table and say -- please come, sit with us, tell us what are your concerns. And we will distil those concerns and place them before the G-20. That is a unique exercise," the foreign affairs minister said.
Jaishankar said that India has a special responsibility in this changing world scenario.
"I see it more for India as a responsibility, that we have the responsibility today in a very difficult world. How do you bring people together? How do you make everybody understand that we all have a bigger responsibility and therefore please, can we kind of get our act together here and do what is right by the world," he said.
The External Affairs minister said he hoped that the G20 nations would understand their responsibilities to other countries.
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"India has a reputation of being a constructive player. Someone who bridgesdivides, who kind of somewhere helps to fix problems. I am confident that every one of the G20 nations coming to Delhi will understand the responsibility that they bear. That the other 180 countries of the world are looking to them to set directions and that they cannot afford to fail them," he said.
The minister said that the participation of every citizen of the country in some way in the summit was assuring.
"One of the big pluses of the G20 is really how much more interested the people of India, especially the young people of India, have got about foreign policy and they need it because look, this is a globalised era," he said.
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