India hosts fresh G-20 talks with Blinken, Lavrov set to face off

Analysts expect 'rocky ride' as Ukraine war overshadows Global South priorities

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, and Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov are set to attend a G-20 meeting in New Delhi. (Source photos by Reuters and Russian Foreign Ministry)

KIRAN SHARMA, Nikkei staff writer

NEW DELHI -- The second major meeting of India's Group of 20 presidency begins Wednesday, with foreign ministers gathering in the nation's capital and analysts expecting a tense atmosphere over the war in Ukraine.

The event comes days after G-20 finance ministers and central bank governors met in Bengaluru and failed to produce a joint communique, as China backed Russia against including paragraphs on the war. India could only issue a "chair's summary and outcome document" that said "most members strongly condemned the war," but that "there were other views and different assessments of the situation and sanctions" against Moscow -- echoing the G-20's Bali statement last year.

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