‘Summit an opportunity to tell story of new India’

British High Commissioner to India Alexander Ellis said that India’s G20 Presidency is an “opportunity” to tell the story of a “new and modern India,” while also emphasising that it has the potential to tackle some of the ‘world’s big problems’.

In ANI ‘Podcast with Smita Prakash’, the British High Commissioner highlighted that India has the convincing power to bring together the fractured group of countries to work its way through and tackle the problems of today.

“During India’s G20 Presidency, Amitabh Kant as G20 Sherpa is very ambitious and that flows through Prime Minister Narendra Modi to try and tackle some of the world’s big problems for example development and how you do development in technology in future and how does technology play a role in development,” he said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had described India’s agenda at the G-20 as “inclusive, ambitious, actionoriented”. He added, “During our G-20 Presidency, we shall present India’s experiences, learnings and models as possible templates for others, particularly the developing world.

Current challenges

Underscoring the potential of India in finding answers to the current challenges, Ellis said, “It is an opportunity to tell the story of India and the story of new India and modern India. So, I am glad that India has got the presidency and we will support it absolutely to try and find answers to those questions but its a tough ask there is a high ambition, it’s a tough to ask at the same time.”

Alexander Ellis said that India is a powerful country and has the ability to talk to many different nations.

India has the convincing power to bring together fractured group of countries to work its way through and tackle the problems of today.