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The leaders who reached the national capital include US President Joe Biden, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Argentina President Alberto Fernandez, and Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

The Global South has long demanded better representation in the G20. India helped move the needle forward, laying the groundwork for more robust cooperation in the future, though it faces one final hurdle at this weekend’s summit.

PM Narendra Modi has expressed confidence that the New Delhi G20 Summit will chart a new path in human-centric and inclusive development.

President Joe Biden arrived in India on Friday for a two-day summit at a moment of division among the world’s leading economies, hoping to seize on an opening created by the absence of the Russian and Chinese leaders.

The silver lining for Indias presidency is likely to be the support by almost all G20 countries to its proposal to include the African Union as a permanent member of the bloc that has emerged as perhaps the most influential multilateral forum after the United Nations.

G20 Summit 2023 LIVE Updates: The G20 Summit is all set to kick off in the next few hours as leaders have started arriving in Delhi on Friday.

President Biden and leaders of the world's 20 largest economies will meet in New Delhi, India, for the annual G-20 summit. Neither Russia's Putin nor China's Xi Jinping is expected to attend.

PM Modi reiterated his recent remarks that the time has come for a humancentric approach to growth instead of a GDP-centric one. “India also places great emphasis on a humancentric way of furthering progress. It is important to emulate (Mahatma) Gandhi jis mission of serving the underprivileged, the very last person in the queue,” he tweeted.

PM Modi indicated that the meeting of the powerful grouping would be marked by a strong articulation of concerns of the developing countries, boosting

This framing is important since India is taking the lead in voicing the concerns of the developing and under-developed countries, popularly known as the Global South, who have been adversely impacted by the Russia-Ukraine war.