New Delhi, Oct 12: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the 9th G20 Parliamentary Speakers’ Summit (P20) at the Yashobhoomi convention centre here on October 13, his office said on Thursday.
The summit is being hosted by Parliament under the broader framework of India’s G20 presidency.
In line with the theme of India’s G20 presidency, the theme of the 9th P20 Summit is ‘Parliaments for One Earth, One Family, One Future’.
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Prime Minister Modi will inaugurate the 9th G20 Parliamentary Speakers’ Summit (P20) on October 13 at Yashobhoomi, New Delhi at around 11 am, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said in a statement.
The event will be attended by speakers of parliaments of G20 members and invitee countries. The Pan-African Parliament will take part in the P20 Summit for the first time after the African Union became a member of G20 at the New Delhi G20 Leaders’ Summit last month.
The thematic sessions during this P20 Summit will focus on four subjects — transformation in people’s lives through public digital platforms, women-led development, accelerating SDGs and sustainable energy transition.
Meanwhile, amid a diplomatic row, speaker of the Canadian Senate Raymonde Gagne has decided to skip the Presiding Officers’ Summit of Parliaments of G20 nations that began here Thursday.
Gagne had earlier confirmed her presence at the Parliament-20 meeting chaired by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla.
“The Canadian Speaker is not attending the Summit. Schedules keep changing,” Parliamentary sources said.
Earlier, Birla had said he would raise “several issues” in his informal talks with the speaker of the Canadian Senate.
“We invite all members for G20 events, in this case P20. Participation is their decision. It is subject to a number of factors and you should ask them,” External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi told reporters when asked about the Canadian Speaker skipping the P20 Summit chaired by the Lok Sabha Speaker.
India, Canada relations have nosedived after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s allegations last month linking Indian agents to the killing of Khalistani extremist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in June. India had dismissed the allegation as “absurd”.
The P20 meeting got underway on Thursday with parliamentarians of G20 nations participating in the parliamentary forum on Lifestyle for Environment (LiFE), a movement proposed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
(PTI)
