Highlights | G20 Summit: India Hands Over G20 Presidency To Brazil, Proposes Virtual Discussion In November

G20 Summit In India: On the second day of the G20 summit world leaders and delegates reached Rajghat to lay wreaths at Mahatma Gandhi's Samadhi.

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G20 Summit In India: India on Sunday handed over the G20 Presidency to Brazil on the second day of the G20 Summit in New Delhi. In his remarks on the closing ceremony of the 2-day long G20 Summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that India still has the G20 presidency for nearly 2.5 months more and proposed the group leaders hold a virtual session of G20 by the end of November to review the topics decided in the 2-day Summit.

PM Modi handed over the ceremonial gavel of the Group of 20 presidency to Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the G20 summit. "I congratulate Brazilian President and my friend Lula da Silva and hand over the gavel of Presidency," PM Modi said minutes before the New Delhi G20 Summit concluded.  

The first day of the Summit was conducted successfully on Saturday with New Delhi inviting the African Union as the permanent member of the group at the sprawling Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi's Pragati Maidan for the 18th G20 Summit.

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10 September 2023

14:11 IST

G20 Summit Live Updates: Russian FM Sergey Lavrov Praises India's G20 Presidency

Praising India's G20 Presidency, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov said that the "active role of the Indian presidency has genuinely consolidated the G20 countries from the Global South for the first time in history."

#WATCH | G 20 in India | Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says "It is a long way to go but this Summit has been a milestone... I would also like to mention the active role of the Indian presidency that has genuinely consolidated the G20 countries from the Global South for… pic.twitter.com/7Hhw4nOGCe

— ANI (@ANI) September 10, 2023

13:28 IST

G20 Summit Live Updates: PM Modi Hands Over Gavel Of G20 Presidency To Brazil President Lula da Silva

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday handed over the ceremonial gavel of the Group of 20 presidency to Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the G20 summit here. "I congratulate Brazilian President and my friend Lula da Silva and hand over the gavel of Presidency," PM Modi said minutes before the New Delhi G20 Summit concluded. Earlier Indonesian President Joko Widodo and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva handed over saplings to Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of Session 3 of the G20 Summit.

#WATCH | G 20 in India | Prime Minister Narendra Modi hands over the gavel of G 20 presidency to the President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. pic.twitter.com/ihEmXN9lty

— ANI (@ANI) September 10, 2023