# India hosts the G20 New Delhi summit and the New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration

Date: 2023

## The fact

On 9–10 September 2023 India hosted the G20 New Delhi summit and leaders adopted the New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration under India’s presidency. [Modi](/people/narendra-modi) chaired. He did not sit as every foreign minister.

## Context

The MEA and G20 Secretariat ran the process. The African Union was admitted as a member. Language on Ukraine was a negotiated compromise. He is the host principal. He did not write every paragraph.

The 2022 Bali declaration is a neighbouring earlier G20 instrument under Indonesia. Chandrayaan-3 is a neighbouring August 2023 ISRO file.

The Prime Minister of India is head of the Union Council of Ministers. Parliament writes statutes; the President assents; states and Union ministries implement; the Supreme Court can strike a scheme down. A prime minister can announce demonetisation, drive a bill, and take an oath. He does not write a UNFCCC depositary record, an ISRO telemetry file, or a Supreme Court judgment by himself.

## Evidence and sources

Ministry of External Affairs of India carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

## What is established and what is not

Established: a 9 September 2023 New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration adopted at a G20 summit India hosted.

Not established: that every later Ukrainian casualty was thereby constrained, or a unique later trade coefficient from the communique.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Leaders adopted a negotiated text. The MEA ran the process.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies India hosts the G20 New Delhi summit and the New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration, not a later speech about India hosts the G20 New Delhi summit and the New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. India hosts the G20 New Delhi summit and the New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration on 2023-09-09 is not a licence to treat every later Ministry of External Affairs of India communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average India hosts the G20 New Delhi summit and the New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He chaired the summit as host. Leaders adopted a negotiated text. The MEA ran the process. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. The Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, the President, the Reserve Bank, state governments, the Election Commission, and foreign counterparties share specific files. Allegation is not a completed judgment. A Supreme Court striking-down is not a criminal conviction. A scheme notification is not a unique rupee coefficient. A UN pledge is not a delivered emissions path.

## People

- Narendra Modi: https://factrail.ai/people/narendra-modi

## Drivers

- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism
- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/g20-nations-agree-declaration-after-overcoming-hurdle-over-ukraine-2023-09-09/
- https://www.mea.gov.in/Images/CPV/G20-New-Delhi-Leaders-Declaration.pdf

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/in-g20-new-delhi-2023