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Tag: Group of 20 (G-20)

India to host G-20 Summit in 2023

November 24, 2020
G20
  • India will host the Summit of the G20 Group in 2023. India was earlier slated to host the summit in 2022.
  • India and Indonesia have interchanged their respective hosting year of G20 as Indonesia would also host the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2023.

15th G20 Summit conducted under the chairmanship of Saudi Arabia

November 22, 2020
G20
  • The 15th G20 Summit was conducted under the chairmanship of Saudi Arabia. King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia chaired the Summit through video-conferencing, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • The two-day Summit was held under the theme “Realising the Opportunities of the 21st Century for All”.

Environment Ministerial Meeting of G20 held

September 17, 2020
Virtual G20 Leaders’ Summit to prepare an action plan against COVID-19
  • The Environment Ministerial Meeting (EMM) of the G20 countries was held through video conferencing under the Presidency of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Union Environment, Climate Change and Forest Minister Shri Prakash Javadekar represented India in the meeting.

G-20 Labour and Employment Ministers

September 11, 2020
G-20 Labour and Employment Ministers
  • On September 10, 2020 the Labour and Employment Minister Santosh Gangwar addressed the virtual meeting of G-20 Labour and Employment Ministers.

Saudi Arabia will host G20 Foreign Ministers’ Extraordinary Meeting

September 4, 2020
G20
  • Saudi Arabia will host the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Extraordinary Meeting virtually. India proposed the setting up of voluntary ‘G20 Principles on Coordinated Cross-Border Movement of People’. India will be represented by the External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar.

2nd Extraordinary G20 Virtual Trade and Investment Ministerial Meet

May 15, 2020
G20 Virtual Trade and Investment Ministerial Meet
  • The second edition of Extraordinary G20 Virtual Trade and Investment Ministerial Meet was organized under the presidency of Saudi Arabia.
  • The meeting was chaired by the Saudi Minister of Commerce, Majid Al Qasabi, in the presence of the Minister of Investment, Khalid Al-Faleh.

G-20 launches a new initiative to fight COVID-19

April 29, 2020
  • G-20 has launched a new initiative “Access to COVID-19 tools accelerator” under Saudi Arabia. The aim of this initiative is to make sure the availability of all tools necessary to fight COVID-19 to all the members countries.

G-20 Extraordinary Agriculture Ministers Meet organized by Saudi Arabia

April 22, 2020
Virtual G20 Leaders’ Summit to prepare an action plan against COVID-19
  • Saudi arabia organized G-20 Extraordinary Agriculture Ministers Meeting virtually  due to COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Main focus of the meeting was on the food availability and to tackle any possibility of food shortage due to coronavirus. Union Agriculture minister Narendra Singh tomar participated in this meeting.
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