Syllabus: GS-II,
Subject: International Relations
Topic: India’s relations with other nations
Issue: Indian Prime Minister visit to Nigeria, Brazil and Guyana.
Context: PMs visit to Nigeria, Brazil, and Guyana recently.
Key highlights:
Cross-regional summit diplomacy: The visit covers three different geographical regions- Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. It encompasses interaction on bilateral, regional, and global issues.
Importance of Nigeria:
- Growing clout of Nigeria: Nigeria is Africa’s most populous nation and the fourth-largest economy. It was invited as partner state by the BRICS and also holds the recent chair ship of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
- Natural partners: As two large democracies and multi-religious, multi-ethnic, and multi-linguistic societies devoted to ‘unity in diversity’, India and Nigeria are natural partners.
- Key beneficiary: Nigeria is an important beneficiary of India’s developmental assistance and human-resource development-related programmes.
- Expanding areas of partnership: Two countries are set to expand bilateral cooperation into areas like agriculture, urban transportation, renewable energy, and digital transformation.
- Security cooperation: Both renewed the commitment to combat terrorism, extremism, and radicalisation.
G-20 summit in Brazil:
- People-centric decisions: The 19th G-20 summit took forward the decisions taken at the New Delhi summit by mainstreaming the perspectives of the Global south.
- Three priorities: The G-20 summit prioritises social inclusion, sustainable development and reform of global governance institutions.
- Social inclusion: The Global Alliance Against Poverty and Hunger was launched to foster social inclusion.
- Sustainable development: The G-20 failed to make headway on climate finance.
- Reform of global governance: The G-20 adapted the roadmap for “Better, Bigger and more Efficient Multilateral Developmental Banks” called for its early implementation.
- Resolving global issues: Leaders sought peaceful resolution of conflicts raging across Europe and West Asia. It also sought attention on the significant issues of economic development and climate change.
- Regarding India: India and Chinese counterparts met on the sidelines of the G-20 summit to devise the next stage of India-China rapprochement.
Guyana visit:
- Diaspora: 40% of the population of Guyana is of Indian origin, which is crucial to leverage the bilateral relationship.
- Expanding cooperation: Both announced cooperation in diverse sectors such as energy, defence, urban development, digital collaboration etc.
- Regional cooperation: India and the Caribbean community announced cooperation on seven pillars covering capacity building, agriculture and food security, renewable energy and climate change, innovation, technology and trade, cricket and culture, ocean economy, and medicine and health.
The focus should be on expeditious implementation of the decisions to further push Indian diplomacy ahead.
