Indonesian President Joko Widodo has officially handed over the G20 presidency to Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the end of a summit of the bloc’s leaders in Bali. India will officially assume the presidency on 1 December, 2022. PM Modi said that taking over the presidency of the grouping is a matter of pride for every citizen in India.
“Together with all countries’ efforts, we can make the G20 summit a catalyst for global welfare,” Modi said. “India’s G20 presidency will be inclusive, ambitious, decisive and action-oriented. In the next one year, it will be our endeavour that G20 works as a global prime mover to give impetus to collective action,” he further added.
The Group of 20 major economies adopted a joint leaders’ declaration and produced other partnerships, Jokowi said.
The handing over ceremony took place on the last day of the G20 summit in Bali which concluded with the grouping members finalising the joint declaration.
Earlier, PM Modi addressed the G20’s last working session, Digital Transformation where he said that India is making “digital access public.” He also noted that there is still a “huge digital divide” at the international level.
PM Modi highlighted that only 50 countries have adopted the digital payment system. At the third session of the G20 Summit, he emphasized the need to have digital transformation into every person’s life so that no one should be deprived of digital technology.
“In India, we are making digital access public, but at the international level, there is still a huge digital divide. Citizens of most developing countries of the world do not have any kind of digital identity. Only 50 countries have digital payment systems. Can we take a pledge together that in the next ten years we will bring digital transformation in the life of every human being so that no person in the world will be deprived of the benefits of digital technology,” PM Modi said at the G20 summit. During its G-20 Presidency next year, India will work jointly with G-20 partners towards this objective. The principle of “Data for development” will be an integral part of the overall theme of our Presidency “One Earth, One Family, One Future” PM Modi added.