Under India’s G20 presidency, foreign ministers from the world’s biggest economies are in Delhi for the second high-level ministerial meeting.

Afghan Voice Agency(AVA)_Monitoring, The scheduled attendees include U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Chinese Foreign Minister, Qin Gang among others.
Besides the Ukraine war, tensions between Washington and Beijing have also flared after the U.S. shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon over its east coast last month.

India’s foreign ministry said the war in Ukraine will be an important part of the talks that will take place on Thursday.

The country has regularly abstained from voting on UN resolutions condemning the war in Ukraine, including a vote held at the UN General Assembly last week.

Last week, G20 finance ministers failed to reach a consensus on a closing statement at their meeting in Bangalore (Bengaluru) city, in the first ministerial meeting in the run up to the summit later this year.

In all, representatives of 40 countries, including some that are not members of the bloc, such as Bangladesh, and multilateral organizations are due to participate in the meeting.