World
G20: Janet Yellen to attend G20 summit, focus on economy, climate, Ukraine: US Treasury | India News
WASHINGTON: US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will journey to New Delhi to take part within the G20 leaders summit from Sept. 7-10, making her fourth go to to India in 10 months, the Treasury Division mentioned on Thursday.
Yellen intends to focus on the summit on strengthening the worldwide economic system and supporting low- and middle-income international locations by advancing efforts on debt restructurings, the evolution of multilateral growth banks (MDBs) and constructing Worldwide Financial Fund belief fund sources, the Treasury mentioned.
She’s going to “proceed to construct momentum” for her drive to evolve the World Financial institution and different multilateral lenders to spice up financing capability to help growing international locations’ clear vitality transitions, sort out pandemics, fragility and battle, it mentioned.
The Treasury estimates that the lenders collectively can unlock $200 billion in new financing over a decade with stability sheet measures now being carried out or beneath dialogue.
The Treasury mentioned Yellen additionally will rally America’s G20 allies to take care of financial assist for Ukraine and improve prices on Russia over Moscow’s persevering with conflict in Ukraine. This consists of supporting the G7-led value cap on Russian oil exports and efforts to strengthen world meals safety within the face of restrictions on Ukrainian grain exports.
On the similar time, the Treasury mentioned Yellen will work to deepen US bilateral ties with India, a rustic she first described final November as a major “friend-shoring” vacation spot and various to China for US funding and provide chains.
Treasury’s assertion didn’t point out particular bilateral conferences.
On the sidelines of final 12 months’s G20 Summit in Indonesia, Yellen met with the Individuals’s Financial institution of China’s then-governor Yi Gang in first of a number of face-to-face conferences with senior Chinese language officers in current months to ease rocky US-China ties, culminating in her go to to Beijing in July.
Yellen intends to focus on the summit on strengthening the worldwide economic system and supporting low- and middle-income international locations by advancing efforts on debt restructurings, the evolution of multilateral growth banks (MDBs) and constructing Worldwide Financial Fund belief fund sources, the Treasury mentioned.
She’s going to “proceed to construct momentum” for her drive to evolve the World Financial institution and different multilateral lenders to spice up financing capability to help growing international locations’ clear vitality transitions, sort out pandemics, fragility and battle, it mentioned.
The Treasury estimates that the lenders collectively can unlock $200 billion in new financing over a decade with stability sheet measures now being carried out or beneath dialogue.
The Treasury mentioned Yellen additionally will rally America’s G20 allies to take care of financial assist for Ukraine and improve prices on Russia over Moscow’s persevering with conflict in Ukraine. This consists of supporting the G7-led value cap on Russian oil exports and efforts to strengthen world meals safety within the face of restrictions on Ukrainian grain exports.
On the similar time, the Treasury mentioned Yellen will work to deepen US bilateral ties with India, a rustic she first described final November as a major “friend-shoring” vacation spot and various to China for US funding and provide chains.
Treasury’s assertion didn’t point out particular bilateral conferences.
On the sidelines of final 12 months’s G20 Summit in Indonesia, Yellen met with the Individuals’s Financial institution of China’s then-governor Yi Gang in first of a number of face-to-face conferences with senior Chinese language officers in current months to ease rocky US-China ties, culminating in her go to to Beijing in July.
