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If there is one thing the Modi government in India is good at, it is staging an event. And that was on ample display at the just concluded G20 summit held in the national capital, New Delhi.  Read the full story here: https://gulfnews.com/opinion/op-eds/g20-triumph-how-india-scored-a-global-diplomatic-win-1.1694417687065  See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  Subscribe to Gulf News on YouTube and watch more of our videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/GulfNewsTV  #UAEnews #India #G20Summit

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00:00The G20 summit in Delhi is over and it's turned out to be quite a success for India.

00:09On the diplomatic front, a Delhi declaration was adopted even on the tricky issue of Ukraine.

00:15Many experts believe that a consensus would not have been possible at this meeting simply

00:19because of all the differences between Russia and China on one hand and the West led by

00:24the US on the other, especially on the issue of Ukraine.

00:28However, consensus language was found and it's significant that it reflects India's

00:33position on the war in Ukraine.

00:35So there's no explicit mention of Russia or condemnation of Russia the way that there

00:40was in the Bali declaration of December 2022.

00:43The admission of the African Union into the G20 is also another significant diplomatic

00:48milestone that has happened under India's G20 presidency.

00:53The final big achievement for India also is the way that it has handled the G20 summit.

00:57There's been a lot of criticism from the opposition and critics of the Modi government over the

01:01past year that it's made the G20 presidency into some kind of tamasha.

01:06But one can argue that in fact, they have democratised the whole process.

01:10They've made what used to be a very stuffy meeting of technocrats in grey suits turn

01:15into something that has included people on a much bigger scale.

01:19So more than 200 meetings were organised in 60 cities.

01:23And the idea of calling it a people's movement in itself has resonated through the kind of

01:29messaging that the government has tried to send out.

01:31So it's actually changed the way the G20 presidency is looked at by ordinary people.

01:37And that too is a significant achievement for India.

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