On WednesdayAmitabh Kant, India’s G20 summit negotiator said that Russia’s war in Ukraine has stalled global poverty reduction.
The battle reached its second-year last month, overshadowing two G20 ministerial meetings in Mumbai in the previous three weeks.
This year, India, the bloc’s president, has focused on the conflict’s economic consequences, climate change, and poorer nations’ debt.
Kant told reporters that Europe could not stop global growth, poverty, debt, and progress.
“Especially when 75 nations are in debt, one-third of the globe is in recession, 200 million people are poor, and the south is suffering. Can one conflict stop the world?”
“Nutrition, health outcomes, learning outcomes, individuals have become stunted and wasted and we are simply worried with one Russia and Ukraine war,” Kant added. “The globe must progress and Europe must solve its problems.”
Europeans must stop thinking the world’s problems are theirs, according to Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.
India has sought a diplomatic settlement and increased its Russian oil purchases without blaming Moscow for the war.
Kant said it “premature” to discuss if U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend a bloc meeting in New Delhi on Sept. 9-10.
Putin may attend the conference, the Kremlin announced Monday.
Since deploying his soldiers to Ukraine in February, Putin hasn’t left the former Soviet Union and skipped November’s G20 conference in Bali, Indonesia.
Russia, China, India, Brazil, Australia, Saudi Arabia, and the wealthier G7 countries comprise the G20.
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