How India managed to unite G20 on Modi’s idea of peace

Draft Communique Echoes PM’s This Isn’t Era Of War’ Call To Putin

After four days of dead-lock, India played a keyrole in helping forge a consensus on the draft G20 communique which is expected to reflect PM Narendra Modi’s call to Russia that “this is not an era of war”.

While interlocutors were squabbling over the language of the draft communique for the Bali leaders’ summit, the Indian delegation worked behind the scenes to get several emerging market economies, including Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Singapore to ensure that the group of the world’s largest economies did not turn into a political battlefield with the G7 members putting the exclusive focus of the declaration on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.