{"id":420306,"date":"2023-09-09T13:17:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T10:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=420306"},"modified":"2023-09-09T13:17:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T10:17:50","slug":"g20-adds-the-au-as-a-member-in-a-push-to-give-a-greater-voice-to-developing-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/g20-adds-the-au-as-a-member-in-a-push-to-give-a-greater-voice-to-developing-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"G20 adds the AU as a member in a push to give a greater voice to developing nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI (SONNA) \u2014 The <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">Group of 20<\/span> top world economies welcomed the African Union (AU) as a member, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Saturday, adding momentum to his drive to give a greater voice to the Global South as host of this year\u2019s annual summit.<\/p>\n<p>Modi announced the membership during his opening speech for the weekend summit of the G20. Growing global rifts and the absence of key players threatened to make reaching consensus on the thorniest issues elusive.<\/p>\n<p>There was widespread support, however, for\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">adding the AU to the G20<\/span>, making it the second regional bloc to become a permanent member after the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Modi rapped his gavel three times before announcing the move to applause in the room.<\/p>\n<div class=\"PageListEnhancementGeneric Enhancement\" data-module=\"\" data-module-trackunsubscribe=\"\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div class=\"PageList-header\" data-prompt=\"visible\">\n<p>He shook hands with the current AU chair, Comoros President Azali Assoumani, and embraced him warmly before inviting him to sit at the table.<a id=\"html-embed-module-e30000\" class=\"AnchorLink\" name=\"html-embed-module-e30000\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI invite the representative of the African Union to take his place as a permanent member of the G20,\u201d Modi said.<\/p>\n<p>Modi has made giving voice to the\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">Global South<\/span>\u00a0a centerpiece of this year\u2019s summit, and adding the AU at the outset was a strong step in that direction.<\/p>\n<p>He told leaders they must find \u201cconcrete solutions\u201d to the widespread challenges that he said stemmed from the \u201cups and downs in the global economy, the north and the south divide, the chasm between the east and the west,\u201d and other issues like terrorism, cyber security, health and water security.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Source: AP<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI (SONNA) \u2014 The Group of 20 top world economies welcomed the African Union (AU) as a member, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Saturday, adding momentum to his drive to give a greater voice to the Global South as host of this year\u2019s annual summit. Modi announced the membership during his opening speech [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":420307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-420306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420308,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420306\/revisions\/420308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}