'Our time is coming': PM Modi calls for global agenda of respond, recognise, respect and reform
FirstpostNew Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that most of the global challenges have not been created by the Global South but they affect us more and called for a global agenda of respond, recognise, respect and reform. Addressing the two-day ‘Voice of Global South Summit’ being hosted by India in the virtual format, he said, " We have turned the page on another difficult year that shows war, conflict, terrorism and geopolitical tensions, rising food fertilizers and fuel prices. Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra said last week that more than 120 countries were being invited for the ‘Voice of Global South’ summit whose theme would be ‘Unity of Voice, Unity of Purpose’. The Ministry of External Affairs said on 6 January that it is being hosted in line with Prime Minister Modi’s statement that India’s G20 Presidency will be shaped in consultation with not just its partner countries in the grouping, but also the fellow-travellers in the Global South.