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YEARENDER 2022

INDIA RISES

ON GLOBAL STAGE

From its independent foreign policy to handling of pandemic and setting up the
agenda for G-20 countries in 2023, during the year just gone the world sit up and

take notice of New Delhi’s increasing global heft

OUR BUREAU
New Delhi/Washington, DC

ear 2022 has been a phenom-
enal year in the history of
YIndia’s foreign policy, under
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as
his advice “this is not an era of war”
to Russian President Vladimir Putin
found an echo across the world, ac-
cording to analysts and watchers of
global politics.
The Russia-Ukraine war has put
the world on the brink of World War
III, every country choosing sides.
However, PM Modi put his faith in
United Nations and chose the side
of peace, asking both countries to
solve the problem through “dialogue
and diplomacy.” In September, on
the sidelines of the Shanghai Coop-
eration Organization Summit, PM
Modi said, “now is not the time for
war” -- a statement welcomed by the
US and other Western countries.
India’s strategy in a multipo-
lar world appears to be avoiding
great-power competition and forg-
ing its own, nonaligned path, accord- Prime Minister Narendra Modi with G-20 leaders at the Mangrove Forest in Bali during the summit in 2022 (ANI)
ing to analysts.
Narendra Modi and his govern- It should, therefore, come as eye and said, “I know that today’s Moreover, on December 1, In-
ment are pursuing an ultra-realist no surprise that New Delhi is not era is not an era of war, and I have dia took over the Presidency at G20
foreign policy that deprioritizes the breaking its long-standing partner- spoken to you on the phone about and UNSC. India formally assumed
legal and moral aspects of inter- ship with Moscow, which goes back this.” the Presidency of G-20 on Decem-
national affairs to secure India’s to the Cold War. Last month, when it appeared ber 1, 2022 and will hold it till No-
national interests. By refusing to New Delhi is not abandoning that the G-20 summit in Bali, In- vember 30, 2023. India’s theme as
outrightly condemn Russia over its the liberal international order to sal- donesia, would not agree on a joint stated by Prime Minister Narendra
offensive in Ukraine, India receives vage its relations with Russia. For in- statement because of differing views Modi is -- ‘One Earth, One Family,
tangible economic and security ben- stance, while attending the Shanghai regarding the war in Ukraine, New One Future’.
efits, including the ability to purchase Cooperation Organization summit Delhi reportedly stepped up and Modi had described India’s
heavily discounted oil and continue in September, Modi rebuked Rus- helped forge the consensus that en- agenda at the G-20 as “inclusive, am-
to access Russian-made weapons for sian aggression when he looked Rus- abled the group to issue language bitious, action-oriented”. He added,
its armed forces. sian President Vladimir Putin in the mostly condemning Moscow. Continued at next page... >>

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