India Emerging As Leader Of Many Nations?

Brut asked India's External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar about India emerging as the voice of the Global South during the G20.

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00:00Hi, I'm Hamna from Brute.

00:02I wanted to know, does India see itself as the leader of the Global South and how did

00:07it assume this role?

00:08The fact is that the countries of the Global South are in deep economic distress and that

00:14distress has not, in our view, been fully recognised till now.

01:14Three-fourths of humanity lives in our countries.

01:32We should also have an equivalent voice.

01:45Most of the global challenges have not been created by the Global South.

02:13Hi I'm Hamna from Brute.

02:15I wanted to know, does India see itself as the leader of the Global South and how did

02:20it assume this role?

02:21Because there has been a lot of conversation about bringing the Global South together.

02:24What India has tried to do, beginning with our presidency, was to seek to ensure that

02:33the concerns of the Global South constitute the core agenda of the G20 deliberations.

02:45Because after three years of pandemic, after economic disruptions of various kinds, after

02:52the impact of the Ukraine conflict, after climate events, the fact is that the countries

03:00of the Global South are in deep economic distress and that distress has not, in our

03:07view, been fully recognised till now.

03:11And we therefore very consciously started off with the voice of the Global South Summit.

03:18But again, I emphasise, the voice was of the summit.

03:21It was the voice of 125 countries who participated in that summit.

03:27But we, as the G20 presidency, we saw it as our responsibility of distilling the views

03:35which were expressed in that summit and putting it before the rest of the G20.

03:41And we can take a lot of satisfaction that many of the issues that the Finance Minister

03:47highlighted, which Sharpa highlighted, these are truly Global South issues.

03:53And we hope that certainly the Delhi Summit and the deliberations which will take place

03:58today and tomorrow would give strong guidance to take them forward.