India to raise issue of terrorism at G20 Rome summit

India will raise issues related to cross-border terrorism, terror financing and terror-related activities having an impact on it and the world at the G20 summit with member countries also slated to discuss ways to build back from Covid-19 pandemic, Foreign Secretary Harsh V. Shringla said on Thursday.

Briefing reporters about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Italy for G20 summit and to the UK for COP 26 meeting, Shringla said that G20 follows an economics-oriented agenda but India “will not be falling short in raising issue like cross-border terrorism, terror financing and terror-related activities having impact on ourselves and on the world”. “It is important to see policies on corruption, tax evasion, money laundering but we will not be falling short in raising issues related to terrorism,” he added. The two-day G20 summit will take place in Rome on 30 October and 31 October. This would be PM Modi’s eighth G20 summit. The Prime Minister will be visiting Rome and the Vatican City, from 29 to 31 October at the invitation of Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi. He will be in Glasgow, United Kingdom, on 1, 2 November for the COP26 meeting at the invitation of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Noting that India is taking ambitious action on expanding clean and renewable energy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said he will highlight the need to comprehensively address climate change issues at the COP26 Summit, including equitable distribution of carbon space. In his departure statement ahead of his visit to Italy and the UK, the Prime Minister said he will also highlight the issues related to support for mitigation and adaptation and resilience-building measures, mobilization of finance and technology transfer at the COP-26 meeting in Glasgow. “This will be the first in-person Summit of the G20 since the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020 and will allow us to take stock of the current global situation and exchange ideas on how the G20 can be an engine for strengthening economic resilience and building back inclusively and sustainably from the pandemic,” the Prime Minister said.