External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is also expected to hold a few bilateral meetings in the margins of the G20 Foreign Ministers\u2019 Meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa. (File photo)<\/p>\n
External Affairs Minister (EAM) Dr S Jaishankar will visit Johannesburg, South Africa on February 20-21, 2025 to participate in the G20 Foreign Ministers\u2019 Meeting (FMM).<\/p>\n The visit comes at the invitation of South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Ronald Lamola. South Africa assumed the G20 presidency on December 1, 2024, and will hold the position until November 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n EAM Jaishankar\u2019s participation in the G20 FMM will strengthen India\u2019s engagement with G20 countries and bolster the voice of the Global South in this important forum, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Wednesday (February 19, 2025) as it announced the visit.<\/p>\n While in Johannesburg, EAM Jaishankar is also expected to hold a few bilateral meetings in the margins of the FMM.<\/p>\n The G20 comprises 19 leading economies along with the European Union and African Union. It represents 85% of global GDP, over 75% of international trade, and about two-thirds of the world\u2019s population.\u00a0<\/p>\n The presidency rotates annually among members. India held the presidency in 2022-2023, successfully hosting the New Delhi G20 Leaders\u2019 Summit and highlighting the priorities for countries of the Global South. India also played a key role in ensuring the African Union\u2019s inclusion as a full member of the grouping during the 2023 summit.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is also expected to hold a few bilateral meetings in the margins of the G20 Foreign Ministers\u2019 Meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa. (File photo) External Affairs Minister (EAM) Dr S Jaishankar will visit Johannesburg, South Africa on February 20-21, 2025 to participate in the G20 Foreign Ministers\u2019 Meeting (FMM). The … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}