Delhi Declaration: India delivers harmony script for world to live in peace

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By Our Special Correspondent

New Delhi, September 9: India pulled through a consensus G20 declaration to lay the roadmap for the world to admit challenges and address them with actionable agenda. The 83-point Delhi Declaration was adopted by the G20 Leaders’ Summit despite the anticipation of China and Russia axis once more sparring with western blocks to derail the Indian presidency.

By agreeing to a consensus, G20 has lived up to the track record to always adopt a joint communique. The sceptics were basing their arguments on the back of the Finance Ministers and Foreign Ministers of the G20 failing to adopt joint statement.

“The Indian presidency helped in adopting the actionable agenda for climate change finance, including from the multilateral agencies, besides assistance for social sector,” said Finance Minister Nirmala Sithraman, while addressing a presser along with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar.

The eight-para in the Delhi Declaration dealt with the geo-political issues. “This is a complete statement with 100 per cent unanimity. This demonstrates the ability of India to bring all on the same table, China and Russia, emerging economies and developing nations. Planet, people, peace and prosperity…this is the statement with 100 per cent unanimity, without footnotes or chair’s summary,” said Indian G20 sherpa Amitabh Kant.

He also said that there are 112 outcomes which are two and a half times than ever achieved. “It has a huge India narrative,” added Kant.

On contentious Ukraine War, Delhi Declaration played with word play to get all the parties on board. “All states must act in a manner consistent with purposes and principles of UN charter in its entirety; all states must refrain from threat or use of force to seek territorial acquisition against territorial integrity and sovereignty or political independence of any state; use or threat of use of nuclear weapons is inadmissible,” put out Delhi Declaration. Indeed, there were different views and assessments of the situation, while the declaration underlined peaceful resolution of conflicts, and efforts to address crises as well as diplomacy and dialogue are critical. “Today’s era must not be of war,” declaration noted, recalling Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s words spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their bilateral on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit last year.

Delhi Declaration also brought focus on the consequences of the extended Ukraine War, as the document called upon Russia and Ukraine to ensure immediate and unimpeded deliveries of grain, foodstuffs, and fertilizers/inputs. Emphasizing importance of sustaining food and energy security, Delhi Declaration called for cessation of military destruction or other attacks on relevant infrastructure, while underlining that potential for high levels of volatility in food and energy markets remains.