During his four-day stay in India this week, which ends today, Argentine Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero, External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed that their governments’ participation in such multilateral fora as the G20 provides an opportunity to focus attention on the needs of the developing nations of the “Global South” (almost entirely all of them south of the Tropic of Cancer). In their discussions, they emphasized the importance that developing nations Indonesia, India and Brazil—in that order—will be leading the G20 between now and 2024.
In today’s world, where attention is largely focused on Ukraine, promoting the agenda of the Global South is a “challenge,” they noted, as Cafiero observed in an April 24 press conference, in which he pointedly asked “What about Haiti?” While the world’s attention is focused on the conflict in Ukraine, he said, Haiti’s horrific humanitarian crisis hasn’t gone away. But no one is shining a light on it.
