G20 Delegates From Brazil, Germany, Japan, Indonesia, China Arrive In Varanasi For Development Ministers' Meeting
Date
6/12/2023 5:14:22 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 12. G20 delegates from
Brazil, Germany, Japan, Indonesia and China on Sunday arrived at
the Varanasi Airport to participate in the G20 Development
Ministers' Meeting scheduled to be held from June 11-13.
Awadh's Faruwahi dance and Kashi Vishwanath Damru Vadan Samiti
gave a grand welcome to the foreign guests at the airport. The
foreign guests also performed Damru Vadan and Indian dance at the
airport.
Among those who arrived were Australian politician Patrick
Conroy, Brazil's Ambassador to India Mauricio Lyrio, European
commissioner for International partnerships Jutta Urpilainen,
German minister for economic cooperation and development Svenja
Schulze, Japanese Minister Shunsuke Takei and China's Zhao Yifan
among others.
Foreign guests were very happy to see the reception at the
airport.
The G20 Development Ministers' Meeting under the G20 Indian
Presidency is scheduled to be held between June 11-13 in Varanasi,
Uttar Pradesh. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will chair
the meeting.
The meeting, to be held as part of India's G20 Presidency will
also see a special video address by Prime Minister Narendra Modi,
the Ministry of External Affairs statement said.
The Varanasi Development Ministers' Meeting takes place in the
midst of mounting developmental challenges that have been made
worse by the slowdown in the global economy, debt distress, the
effects of climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss, rising
poverty and inequality, the cost of living crisis, supply chain
disruptions around the world, and geopolitical tensions and
conflicts.
The G20 Development Ministerial meeting will be an opportunity
to collectively agree on actions for accelerating the achievement
of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and fostering synergies
between the development, environment and climate agendas while
avoiding costly trade-offs that hold back progress for the
developing countries, the statement added.
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