2023-08-27 14:52:54
“We invited the African Union with the idea of granting it permanent member status” of the G20. The Indian Prime Minister, Morenda Modi, proposed this Sunday the permanent adhesion of the African Union (AU) to the G20, the famous club of the richest countries of the Globe, by inviting it to come to India, where meet the summit of the forum on September 9 and 10.
In December, Joe Biden had also expressed the wish that the AU join the G20 as a permanent member, assuring that “it was going to be done”. In November 2022, President Emmanuel Macron also assured that the French state supported “the full and complete integration of the African Union into the G20”.
Currently, only one African country, South Africa, is a member of the group, which brings together nineteen of the world’s largest economies plus the European Union, representing 85% of global GDP and two-thirds of the world’s population.
India wants to be the “solution” to tomorrow’s problems
Based in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, the AU has 55 member countries, totaling three trillion dollars of GDP.
The Indian Prime Minister also affirmed in a speech that his country, China’s great rival, had the capacity to compensate for the supply problems caused worldwide by the Covid-19 crisis. India is the “solution” to create “a reliable global supply chain”, because “the world has changed a lot after Covid-19”, Morenda Modi also said.
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