Modi Goes on ‘Global South’ Overdrive for Geostrategic Joust
PM Narendra Modi with cricketers in Georgetown Image credit X.com @PMOIndia
Modi Carries Kazan Spirit to Bond with Global South
By Manish Anand
New Delhi, November 22: Prime Minister Narendra Modi logged in as many as 31 bilateral meetings in his five-day three-nation tour. Modi’s ‘Global South’ with G20 Summit pivot carried the energy of the Kazan BRICS Leaders’ Meet.
India as troika of G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro worked the warmth of the New Delhi Summit. India’s Africa outreach at the New Delhi Summit of G20 was the hallmark. Modi visited Nigeria as part of his three-nation tour to send out the message that India is investing diplomatic capital on the African continent.
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The five-day-long “whirlwind diplomacy” was marked by hectic flurry of bilateral meetings. Modi participated in 31 bilateral meetings and informal interactions with global leaders during his three nations foreign visit.
The BRICS Summit in Kazan has taken place in the backdrop of simmering tension in India and the US in the shadow of Canada. The overdrive of the US Federal courts to indict key Indian officials and businessmen ruffled several feathers in New Delhi.
Between Kazan and Rio de Janeiro Summits of BRICS and G20 respectively, India and China have given urgency to forget the violent border scuffle past. Beijing appears keener to mend ties with New Delhi.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to have taken the task for working the multipolarity with religious zeal. “Russia is not fighting against Ukraine. It fights against unipolar world order in pursuit of a multipolar world order,” said Alexander Dugin, Russian philosopher.
Dugin argued that “the Russian President Vladimir Putin is leading a battle for the whole humanity, that’s the mission of Russia: to be the driver of a just, democratic and prosperous and peaceful multipolar world”.
Modi held a bilateral meeting in Nigeria, 10 bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Brazil. Thereafter, during the visit to Guyana, he held nine bilateral meetings.
India and Guyana are bound with cultural relations. Guyana’s economy is on an exponential growth path on the back of the oil discovery. India and the Caribbean nations warmed to each other during the Covid-19 pandemic when the developed world forgot the smaller nations in sharing the vaccines.
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In Brazil, Modi held bilateral meetings with leaders of Brazil, Indonesia, Portugal, Italy, Norway, France, UK, Chile, Argentina and Australia. He met with Prabowo Subianto, President of Indonesia; Luis Montenegro, PM of Portugal; Keir Starmer, PM of the U.K; Gabriel Boric, President of Chile; and Javier Milei, President of Argentina. The common link with all these leaders is their drift from the US.
Modi also had informal interactions and pull aside meetings with leaders of Singapore, South Korea, Egypt, USA and Spain and with the heads and executives of various international organisations like Ursula von der Leyen, European Union; Antonio Guterres, United Nations; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, World Trade Organization; Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Health Organisation; and Kristalina Georgieva and Gita Gopinath, IMF.
In Guyana, Modi held bilateral meetings with leaders of Guyana, Dominica, Bahamas, Trinidad & Tobago, Suriname, Barbados, Antigua & Barbuda, Grenada and St. Lucia.
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