Saudi Arabia Chairs G20 Foreign Ministers’ Extraordinary Meeting, S. Jaishankar Represents India

Saudi Arabia Chairs G20 Foreign Ministers’ Extraordinary Meeting, S. Jaishankar Represents India

• The G20 Foreign Ministers’ Extraordinary Meeting was held on 3 September 2020 under the current Chair, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis.
• The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, His Highness Prince Faisal Bin Farhan Al-Saud, chaired the virtual meeting.
• From India External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar represented the meeting.
• The discussions were held on strengthening international cooperation across borders in wake of COVID-19 crisis.
• Dr. S. Jaishankar also proposed development of voluntary ‘G20 Principles on Coordinated Cross-Border Movement of People’ with three elements:
  1. Standardisation of testing procedures and universal acceptability of test results;
  2. Standardisation of ‘Quarantine procedures’;
  3. Standardisation of ‘movement and transit’ protocols.

Points to remember:

1. Which country is the chair of the G20 for 2020? Saudi Arabia
2. Who represented India at the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Extraordinary Meeting 2020? Dr. S. Jaishankar