G20 Summit 2022 highlights: Indonesia hands over G20 presidency to India as Bali Summit ends

Bali wants the world to know it’s back.

Dozens of world leaders and other dignitaries are traveling to the Indonesian island for the G-20 summit, drawing a welcome spotlight on the revival of the tropical destination’s vital tourism sector.

Tourism is the main source of income on this idyllic “island of the gods,” which is renowned for its tropical beaches, terraced rice paddies, mystical temples and colorful spiritual offerings. Read More

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statements on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Indonesia about a “huge difference between pre and post-2014 India” on Wednesday received a sharp response from the Congress, which said the PM broke the convention of not commenting on domestic politics at an international forum.

Addressing the Indian diaspora in Bali on Tuesday, Modi said, “The huge difference between pre and post-2014 India is that of speed and scale. Today, India is moving ahead at an unprecedented speed and scale.” He added that India “now builds the biggest statues and the biggest stadiums”.

The Modi-led government came to power in 2014. The PM said further, “We don’t dream small anymore. Since 2014, we have opened more than 320 million bank accounts. More than the population of the USA. Today, India is the fastest-growing large economy in the world.” Read More

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was handed over the presidency of G20 by Indonesian President Joko Widodo amid a round of applause, as the two-day bloc leaders’ summit in Bali came to a close on Wednesday.

The Group of 20 major economies adopted a joint declaration and produced other partnerships, Widodo said in his closing comments. Later, he handed over the gavel of presidency to PM Modi. India will officially assume the presidency from December 1. Read More

The G-20 communique in Bali echoed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s message to Russian President Vladimir Putin, as it said that “Today’s era must not be of war.”

Modi, in his statement to Putin in a bilateral meeting on the margins of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Samarkand in September this year, had said "now is not the time for war", referring to the war between Russia and Ukraine.

Adopted Wednesday, the G-20 communique said, “This year, we have also witnessed the war in Ukraine further adversely impact the global economy. There was a discussion on the issue. We reiterated our national positions as expressed in other fora, including the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly, which, in Resolution No. ES-11/1 dated 2 March 2022, as adopted by majority vote (141 votes for, 5 against, 35 abstentions, 12 absent) deplores in the strongest terms the aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine and demands its complete and unconditional withdrawal from the territory of Ukraine.” (Read more)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday held "fruitful" talks with French President Emmanuel Macron with a focus on enhancing bilateral defence and economic engagement. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the G-20 summit held in Bali.

It is understood that the Ukraine conflict and its implications including food and energy security figured in the talks.

The military cooperation between India and France has witnessed a major expansion in the last few years. Currently, Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande is on a visit to France. (PTI)

Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said Wednesday that she had no information to offer on the cancellation of the meeting between Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and President Xi Jinping of China.

The remarks were made after a Downing Street spokesperson said that a planned meeting between the two leaders at the G20 summit was cancelled due to scheduling issues. (Reuters)

The digital transformation should not be confined to a small part of the human race and its greater benefits will be realised only when digital access becomes truly inclusive, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the G-20 summit on Wednesday.

Modi said India's experience in the past few years has shown that if digital architecture is made widely accessible, it can bring about socio-economic transformation.

In a session on digital transformation, the prime minister said the principle of 'data for development' will be an integral part of the overall theme of India's upcoming G-20 Presidency.

India will assume G20 Presidency for one year, beginning December 1, 2022. (PTI)

The digital transformation should not be confined to a small part of the human race and its greater benefits will be realised only when digital access becomes truly inclusive, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the G-20 summit on Wednesday.

Modi said India's experience in the past few years has shown that if digital architecture is made widely accessible, it can bring about socio-economic transformation.

In a session on digital transformation, the prime minister said the principle of "data for development" will be an integral part of the overall theme of India's upcoming G-20 Presidency.

India will assume G20 Presidency for one year, beginning December 1, 2022. (PTI)

A planned meeting between Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and President Xi Jinping of China at the G-20 summit has been cancelled due to "scheduling issues", a Downing Street spokesperson said Wednesday.  (Reuters)

Leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) major economies made a declaration Wednesday saying they "deplore in the strongest terms" Russia's aggression against Ukraine.

The declaration, approved on Wednesday, said most members strongly condemned the war in Ukraine but there were other views. It said international law must be upheld and the threat of the use of nuclear weapons was inadmissible and welcomed the Black Sea grain initiative. (Reuters)

At the 27th Session of the Conference of Parties (COP27), this year’s UN climate summit, the Mangrove Alliance for Climate (MAC) was launched with India as a partner on Tuesday (November 8). The move, in line with India’s goal to increase its carbon sink, will see New Delhi collaborating with Sri Lanka, Indonesia and other countries to preserve and restore the mangrove forests in the region.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with other world leaders, visited and planted mangroves in Bali's largest mangrove forest Taman Hutan Raya Ngurah Rai on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit Bali on Wednesday.

Modi is in Bali to attend the G20 summit which opened in Bali on Tuesday. Modi was welcomed at the summit venue by Indonesian President Joko Widodo, ahead of the formal opening of the summit.

He had informal interactions with US President Joe Biden, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, French President Emmanuel Macron and several other global leaders on Tuesday on the sidelines of the summit. (PTI)

??Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raised "serious concerns" over suspected domestic interference by China in his first talks with President Xi on Tuesday in more than three years, a Canadian government source said.

?? Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed global and regional developments in a meeting with Biden and also exchanged courtesies with China's Xi at the end of a dinner in the first such meeting since deadly border clashes in mid-2020.

?? South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol called for China to play a bigger role in reining in North Korea's nuclear and missile provocations, his office said, after talks with Xi.

?? Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Xi signalled they would seek to move past years of disagreements after the first formal meeting between leaders of the two countries since 2016.

?? Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Biden discussed bilateral relations, including trade and security issues, the Turkish presidency said.

?? British Prime Minister will meet his Indian counterpart at the summit and set out a professional exchange scheme, his office said, with talks also planned with China's Xi for a "frank and constructive relationship." (Reuters) 

IN THEIR first meeting in public view since the India-China border standoff began in 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping shook hands and spoke to each other at the G20 summit in Bali on Tuesday.

While there was no substantive readout on their conversation — captured by the cameras at the G20 summit dinner —sources said the “Prime Minister and President Xi Jinping, who were both attending the G20 dinner hosted by the Indonesian President, exchanged courtesies at the conclusion of the dinner”. (Read more)

The UK's international reputation has taken "a bit of a knock" this year, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Tuesday, as he vowed to restore economic stability.

In an interview with the BBC here on the sidelines of the G20 Summit, Sunak said tax rises and spending cuts in Thursday's Autumn Statement were needed to reduce rising inflation and UK public debt. But he promised the decisions would be taken in a "fair" way, and everyone would benefit from reduced debt levels.

“Obviously our international reputation took a bit of a knock as a result of some of the things that happened more recently,” he told the BBC. --PTI

Addressing the Indian diaspora in Indonesia, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday said: "We are connected by shared heritage and culture."

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday met US President Joe Biden on the margins of G-20 summit in Bali, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said. Modi and Biden reviewed the deepening of India-US partnership including cooperation in several sectors like critical and emerging technologies, and expressed satisfaction about close cooperation between India and US in new groupings such as Quad and I2U2, reported PTI.

?? Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said China and Australia needed to work towards a stable and prosperous Indo-Pacific as he sat down with Xi for the first such bilateral meeting since 2016.

?? British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak extended his support for Ukraine at the G20 while confirming a long-planned order for warships from BAE Systems.

?? Europe will engage with China but needs to "rebalance" the relationship to avoid becoming too reliant on the country for areas like innovative technology, European Council President Charles Michel said.

?? South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol is due to hold talks with Xi on Tuesday while Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is expected to meet Xi on Thursday on the sidelines of an APEC summit in Thailand.

?? Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is also attending the summit. He is due to visit other Asian states, state media said, without giving details.

?? Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has cancelled his meetings after testing positive for COVID-19, according to a statement on his Facebook page. (Reuters)

Stressing that the challenges for the poor citizens of every country are more severe due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the developments in Ukraine, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday called the crisis of essential goods and lack of financial capacity of the poor a “double whammy”.

Addressing the session on “food and energy security” at the G-20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, Tuesday, Modi said that the G-20 leaders have to find a way to return to the path of ceasefire and diplomacy in Ukraine.

“The current shortage of fertilizers in terms of food security is also a huge crisis. Today's fertilizer shortage is tomorrow's food crisis, for which the world will not have a solution,” said the PM while asking the world leaders to build a mutual agreement to maintain the supply chain of both manure and food grains stable. (Read more)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Rishi Sunak for the first time following Sunak's appointment as the UK Prime Minister. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the Bali G-20 summit.

The Bali summit has three key priorities.

1. Global Health Architecture: This involves deliberations towards strengthening global health resilience and making the global health system more inclusive, equitable, and responsive to crises.

2. Digital Transformation: Deliberations here have centred on achieving the full potential of rapid digitalisation of the global economy by creating a new landscape of cooperation among nations.

3. Sustainable Energy Transition: Under this rubric, the discussions have focussed on ways to accelerate the transition towards cleaner energy sources. In particular, since any such transition requires substantial investments, the efforts have been focussed on finding a platform for such investments. (Read more)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday shared a light moment with US President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia.

Speaking at the G20 summit in Bali, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressed the importance of India being energy secure.

"India's energy-security is important for global growth, as it is the world's fastest-growing economy," said PM Modi. "We must not promote any restrictions on the supply of energy and stability in the energy market should be ensured."

"India is committed to clean energy and environment; by 2030, half of our electricity will be generated from renewable sources," he added. (PTI)

Speaking at the G20 summit in Bali, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for an end to hostilities in Ukraine. 

"I have repeatedly said that we have to find a way to return to the path of ceasefire and diplomacy in Ukraine," PM Modi said, adding that the onus of creating a new world order for the post-Covid period "lies on our shoulders."

The need of the hour is to show concrete and collective resolve to ensure peace, harmony and security in world, he said. (PTI)

Speaking of the importance of institutions like the UN and G-20, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said: "We should not hesitate to acknowledge that multilateral institutions like the UN have been unsuccessful in addressing global challenges."

Today world has greater expectations from G-20, and the relevance of our group has become more significant, he said of the G20 grouping. (PTI)

Continuing his address at the G20 summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that global supply chains are in ruins.

'There is a crisis of essentials, and essential goods all over the world,' he said. He added that the challenges faced by the poor citizens of every country are more severe.

PM Narendra Modi speaks at G-20 summit: "Today, the world has greater expectations from G-20; relevance of our group has become more significant."

He also complimented Indonesia, the host for this edition of the summit, for leadership of G20 in a challenging global environment. PM Modi also cited climate change, Covid pandemic and Ukraine as important issues of the time. 

(PTI)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday attended the G20 Summit and called for ceasefire and diplomacy in the Russia-Ukraine war, reported news agency ANI. PM Modi met with US President Joe Biden and French leader Emmanuel Macron as well. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with French President Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of the G20 summit on Tuesday. 

The annual G20 Summit opened in Bali Tuesday with world leaders set to discuss over the next two days challenges triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic and more recently topped by Russia's war in Ukraine. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was welcomed at the summit venue by Indonesian President Joko Widodo, ahead of the formal opening of the summit.

"Recover Together, Recover Stronger. Indonesian President @jokowi welcomes PM @narendramodi for the G20 Bali Summit. Detailed deliberations on contemporary global challenges including food & energy security and health are on the @g20org Summit agenda today," Spokesperson for the Ministry of External Affairs Arindam Bagchi said in a tweet.

After the meeting in Indonesia, India will take over the Group of 20 presidency for one year. (PTI)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was welcomed to the G20 summit in Bali on Tuesday by Indonesian President Joko Widodo. 

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday he has tested positive for Covid-19 at the Group of 20 meetings in Bali, just days after hosting many world leaders, including President Joe Biden, for a summit in Phnom Penh.

In a posting on his Facebook page, the Cambodian leader said that he had tested positive Monday night and that the test had been confirmed by an Indonesian physician. He said he was returning to Cambodia and was canceling his meetings at the G-20 as well as the following APEC economic forum in Bangkok.

Cambodia was the host of the Association of Southeast Asian Nation summit that ended on Sunday, and Hun Sen met with many leaders who attended one-on-one. In addition to Biden, guests included Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang and many others. (AP)

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called for coordinated global action to address international economic instability and fight back against actions of a “rogue state” like Russia as he landed in Indonesia on Monday for the G20 Summit.

“At the G20, leaders need to step up to fix the weaknesses in the international economic system which Putin has exploited for years,” Sunak said in a statement on Monday.
“Russia is trying to asphyxiate the global economy. We must join together to stop them in their tracks and restore economic stability,” he writes in an article in ‘The Daily Telegraph'.

“Global food prices have been hit by Vladimir Putin's attempts to choke off Ukrainian grain exports – two-thirds of which go to developing countries. Energy bills have skyrocketed thanks to Russia turning off the gas taps... We will not let our economic future be held hostage by the actions of a rogue state – and nor will our allies. Instead, we will stand with Ukraine and we will work to deliver on each element of this five-point plan, promoting free markets and a global economy that is stronger, more stable and more resilient, and that delivers a faster return to growth,” he said. (PTI)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Bali late on Monday to attend the G20 summit. He received a warm and colourful welcome in traditional Balinese style upon his arrival at the airport and said he look forward to having discussions with world leaders on the global issues during his visit.

Nearly three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders of G20 countries are gathering on the Indonesian resort island of Bali with strict testing and masking requirements, even though such measures have been largely dropped in some member countries. It is Chinese President Xi Jinping’s first G20 summit – and only his second trip abroad – since the start of the pandemic as his country continues its zero-COVID policy of lockdowns and quarantine that are among the world’s strictest.

Other G20 nations have varying measures in place and different social conventions for the coronavirus, which has so far infected 631 million people worldwide and killed nearly 6.6 million, though vaccines have significantly slowed the death rate.

Click here to look at summit protocols and some of the divergent approaches to COVID-19 among G20 nations. —AP Report

President Joe Biden said on Monday he told Chinese President Xi Jinping that Beijing has an obligation to attempt to talk North Korea out of conducting a seventh nuclear test, although he said it was unclear whether China had the ability to do so.

Biden met with Xi for more than three hours ahead of the G20 summit in Bali, their first face-to-face meeting since Biden took power last year.

"It's difficult to determine whether or not China has the capacity," Biden said at a press conference after the meeting when asked to what extent he believed China has the ability to talk Pyongyang out of conducting a test. (Reuters)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived at Bali on Monday to attend the G20 Summit of the world's major economies and hold bilateral meetings on its sidelines with key leaders on pressing global issues.

The two-day summit begins Tuesday morning, and will be attended by US President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak among heads from 20 countries and the European Union who make up the group. (PTI)

Taiwan will not compromise on its sovereignty and the Taiwanese people will firmly protect the island's democratic and free way of life, the presidential office said on Monday after the U.S. and Chinese presidents clashed over the issue of Taiwan.

Maintaining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait is the common responsibility of both Taiwan and China and "meeting on the battlefield" is definitely not an option for either side, the presidential office said in a statement, responding to the meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Bali. (Reuters)

US President Joe Biden on Monday told Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping they were both responsible for preventing their superpower competition from turning into conflict, in rare talks aimed at thawing ties that are at their worst in decades.

Biden brought up a number of difficult topics during the three hour meeting, according to a White House readout, including raising U.S. objections to China’s “coercive and increasingly aggressive actions toward Taiwan”, Beijing’s “non-market economic practices”, and practices in “Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong, and human rights more broadly”.

US-China relations have been roiled in recent years by growing tensions over issues ranging from Hong Kong and Taiwan to the South China Sea, trade practices and U.S. restrictions on Chinese technology. Read more