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Prior to his departure to Cannes for the G20 summit, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, said that one of the issues that would come up at the summit would be global governance.
He said: “this is an issue of importance to India and we will work with others to develop effective and representative global governance mechanism and carry forward the process of reforms of international monetary and financial systems.’’
He also said that the summit will discuss, “medium-term structural issues’’, which is the accepted code for China’s excess reserves.
PTI adds:
The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, expects the Summit of world’s 20 leading economies (G20) to signal a “strong and coordinated approach” to put the global economy back on track, while addressing the medium-term structural issues.
Dr Singh also underscored the need for swiftly taking difficult decisions to address the economic challenges in Europe and elsewhere against the backdrop of the sovereign debt crisis in Eurozone.
“It is important for the Cannes Summit to signal a strong and coordinated approach to put the global economy back on track, while addressing medium term structural issues,” he said in a departure statement before leaving for the two-day Cannes Summit in French Riviera starting tomorrow.
The Prime Minister said much more needs to be done to combat the debt crisis despite measure of confidence being restored in the market after the twin summits of the European Union and Eurozone a few days ago.
Noting that the Eurozone is a historic project, he said: “India would like the Eurozone to prosper, because in Europe’s prosperity lies our own prosperity.’’
Developing economies such as India need a conducive global economic environment to address the vast challenges they face, he said.
“In an increasingly interdependent world, we have to be wary of contagion effects and the import of inflationary pressures in our economy. We need to ensure that developing countries have access to requisite funds through multilateral development banks and to investible surpluses to meet their infrastructure and other priority needs,” the Prime Minister said.
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