Washington, Nov 13 : Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, who left for Washington today to take part in G-20 Summit, is being seen as problem solver at economic meets.
The G-20 Summit, which begins in Washington on Saturday, could provide India with an opportunity to shape the new global economic architecture in line with its strategic and economic interests.
New Delhi, Nov 13 : Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today left for Washington to attend the G-20 summit.
Dr. Singh was accompanied by the Finance Minister P. Chidambaram and the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia. He will stopover in Frankfurt while going to and coming back from the United States.
New Delhi - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Thursday that India's message to the G20 nations would be that every effort must be made to ensure that the global financial crisis had minimum impact on developing countries.
Singh, who is scheduled to join leaders of the world's top 20 economies to discuss the crisis at a summit in Washington on Saturday, was speaking at a press briefing in the Indian capital after a meeting of a regional group of South and South East Asian nations.
New Delhi - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called Thursday for focussed cooperation, especially in the area of maritime transport, in his opening remarks at a regional summit.
Top leaders and officials from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand attended the daylong summit in New Delhi of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multisectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC).
New Delhi, Nov 13 : To give a boost to trade and investment in the BIMSTEC region, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has called for the early conclusion of free trade area agreement in the region.
Addressing the inaugural session of the second BIMSTEC summit in New Delhi on Thursday, Dr. Singh also called for concluding agreement on trade and investment to ensure greater flow of investments and further widen and deepen the economic relations among the countries.