Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe will be amongst 20 world leaders who will take part in the Voice of the Global South Summit (VGSS) next week hosted by India essentially, Indian media reported.

The summit will take place on January 12 and January 13 and will be chaired by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, according to a report on WION.

Besides leaders from the neighbourhood, leaders from 5 nations from Africa (Angola, Ghana, Nigeria, Mozambique, Senegal), 3 nations from the ASEAN grouping (Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam) will exist, together with leaders of Uzbekistan, Mongolia, UAE, Papua New Guinea.

Senegals Macky Sall is the head of the African Union while Thailand is the chair of BIMSTEC organizing.

The top will have 10 sessions, with the opening and closing leaders session chaired by PM Modi and the remaining 8 at the ministerial level.

The ministerial sessions will be at Finance, Environment, Foreign, Energy, Health, Education, and Trade levels.

The theme of the Inaugural Leaders session is Voice of Global South - for Human-Centric Development which of the Concluding Leaders session is Unity of Voice-Unity of Purpose .

4 sessions would be held on 12th January, and 6 sessions on 13th January.

All in all, New Delhi has actually extended welcomes to 120 countries.Indian Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra in a presser on Friday said that the summit will bring together countries of the worldwide south and share point of views and concerns amid Covid pandemic fallout, global rate increase when it pertains to food, fuel, fertilisers due to Russia-Ukraine dispute.

The top feeds into the G20 Summit which India will be hosting later on this year in September.

The foreign secretary highlighted, The important inputs produced from the partner nations get due cognizance internationally and Indias ongoing Presidency of the G20 provides us with a special and strong chance to channelise these inputs into the deliberation and discourse of G20.

India took control of the Presidency of the grouping on December 1, 2022, and will host the top for the very first time because the emergence of the grouping after the 2008 monetary crisis.Source: WION -- Agencies.

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