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INTERNATIONAL | G-20

Solidarity, Equality & Sustainability
Highlights of the Summit

The G-20 Summit held in Johannesburg, South Africa, marked the advent of a new
era of global partnership, social justice, and sustainable development. Prime
Minister Narendra Modi attended the summit from November 21 to 23 at the
invitation of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. During his visit, he
addressed several sessions of the Summit and held bilateral meetings with several
global leaders, during which several important decisions were taken.

uring the G-20 summit in 2023, under FIRST SESSION
India’s presidency, the African Union was In the first session of the summit on November 22,
Dmade one of its members. The G20 summit PM Modi said that commendable work has been
was held in South Africa for the first time from done under South Africa’s presidency on issues
November 21 to 23. This time, the theme of the such as skilled migration, tourism, food security,
G-20 Summit was “Solidarity, Equality, and Sus- AI, the digital economy, innovation, and women’s
tainability.” South Africa, through this summit, empowerment. Over the past several decades, the
sought to advance the outcomes of the previous G-20 has shaped global finance and global econom-
summits held in India and Brazil. Prime Minister ic growth. PM Modi proposed to create a Global
Narendra Modi, who attended the G-20 summit Traditional Knowledge Repository within the G-20,
for the 12th time, presented the country’s vision in which could serve as the basis for the Indian Knowl-
alignment with ‘वसुुधैैव कुुटुुम्बकुम’ and ‘One Earth, edge Systems Initiative. This could become a global
One Family, and One Future’. platform that would help disseminate humanity’s

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