Alberto Angel Fernandez, president of Argentina, arrived in New Delhi on Friday to take part in the forthcoming G20 Summit, which will take place on September 9–10.
At the Delhi airport, Faggan Singh Kulaste, the minister of state for steel and rural development, gave Fernandez a warm greeting.
The five nations that make up the BRICS alliance—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—invited Argentina and five other nations to join after the 15th BRICS conference.
Argentina’s envoy to India, Hugo Javier Gobbi praised India’s role in the expansion of BRICS and said that “his country’s inclusion in the group would not have been possible without India’s support”.
In addition, the Ministry of External Affairs claims that relations between India and Argentina are amicable and involve political, economic, scientific, and technical collaboration, including joint Antarctic research.
India and Argentina have consistently backed one another on important global issues as well as India’s application for membership in a number of UN and multilateral organisations. Argentina has constantly expressed its thanks, especially for India’s assistance in helping Argentina with the Malvinas Islands sovereignty problem and more recently with the issue of servicing the nation’s debt and dealing with holdout creditors.
On September 9–10, India will host the G20 Leaders Summit at the freshly opened Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi. Numerous world leaders and delegates are anticipated to attend this first-ever G20 Summit, which is being hosted by India.
In order to demonstrate India’s cultural impact and its current status in the international arena, extensive preparations and logistical plans have been made for the summit.
The 18th G20 Summit is the result of a year’s worth of G20 meetings and processes that involved ministers, high-ranking government officials, and civil society.
“Our G20 priorities will be shaped in consultation with not just our G20 partners, but also our fellow travelers in the Global South, whose voice often goes unheard,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said last December.
