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A tight security blanket and movement restrictions have been imposed across the spruced-up city of New Delhi as India hosts its final leaders’ G20 summit.
So far, the Modi government hosted 215 G20 meetings in over 55 locations this year.
Earlier in May, Pakistan slammed India for hosting one of its tourism-related G20 meetings in India-administered Kashmir.
Pakistan said New Delhi is exploiting its membership to advance a “self-serving” agenda.
Meanwhile, in July, when Robert Habeck, Germany’s economy and climate action minister, visited India to attend a G20 meeting of energy ministers, he told DW that he was optimistic about collaboration with India on energy issues and hoped for a free trade deal between the EU and India.
He also said that while he respected India’s own “tradition and partnership with Russia,” the country cannot remain neutral while the war is ongoing.
Earlier in the year, the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting ended with arguments over Ukraine and no joint statement was released.
During the previous G20 summit in Bali, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the gathering via video, but Modi has not invited Ukraine to participate in this year’s meeting.
Russia’s Putin also decided not to attend the summit.
Amid worsening relations between India and China, Chinese President Xi Jinping also said that he will not be attending the summit.
dh/sri (AP, AFP, dpa, Reuters)
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