INDIA'S G20 PRESIDENCY WAS CHALLENGING DUE TO 'SHARP EAST-WEST 'POLARISATION'

He said that when it has come to South-South cooperation, "we have endeavoured to walk the talk."

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India’s G-20 Presidency was “challenging” as it came amid “a very sharp" East-West polarisation and “very deep” North-South divide, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has said.

The remarks by Mr. Jaishankar came at a special ‘India-UN for Global South: Delivering for Development’ side event he hosted in New York on Saturday on the margins of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly.

"We meet just a few weeks after the New Delhi G-20 Summit, a summit which took place on the theme of ‘One Earth, One Family, One Future’. Now, it was a challenging summit. It was actually a challenging presidency,” he said.

“It was challenging because we were confronting a very sharp East-West polarisation as well as a very deep North-South divide. But we were very determined as the presidency of the G-20 to make sure that this organisation on which the world really had put so much hope,” was able to get back to its core agenda of global growth and development.