Indian PM Modi at G20 Meeting: ‘Global Governance Has Failed’
by Frances Martel
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told an assembly of top diplomats from the member countries of the G20 on Thursday that “global governance has failed” in its missions of preventing future wars and getting countries to cooperate on joint challenges.
The foreign ministers of G20 nations, the world’s top economies, are meeting in India this week in anticipation of the G20, bringing together heads of state, set to take place in the country this summer. India took over hosting duties for the G20 from Indonesia.
Both India and Indonesia are facing the challenge of ensuring the G20 summit is at least in part productive in the shadow of Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, which dominated the agenda in last year’s meeting even as Putin rescinded his assurances to Indonesian President Joko Widodo that he would attend.
In his speech on Thursday, Modi urged the diplomats to look beyond the Ukraine invasion to topics such as the debts of poorer nations, “disaster relief,” and enduring stable food supplies in their discussions.