Entire humanity must stand against terrorism: Modi

The Indian Prime Minister also agreed with Putin. “Combating it must be major priority for G-20”.

As the two-day summit convenes, the G20 leaders are expected to discuss these key economic topics of inclusive growth, employment, and investment, as well as financial regulation. Obama said the USA will work with France to hunt down those responsible. Turkey and Western allies, by contrast, want Assad out.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, South African President Jacob Zuma and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff also arrived here yesterday.

On Sunday, the group criticised the sanctions.

“Today, we meet in the tragic shadow of terrible acts of terrorism”.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday asked world’s top economies to build support systems focused on nations that have the maximum growth potential and pledged to quadruple India’s renewable power capacity to 175 gigawatt by 2022 and cut fossil fuel subsidies.

“However, we always support the unification of efforts to effectively fight the threat of terrorism”, he said.

Unveiling the statue of 12th century scholar-philosopher Basaveshwara in London, Modi said: “My heart is filled with sadness due to what happened in Paris. Together, we can also give shape to G20”, Modi said.

France was rocked by multiple, near simultaneous attacks on entertainment sites around Paris yesterday evening that killed at least 100 people and hostages being held in a concert hall.

“As I speak, terrorist attacks of unprecedented proportions are underway in the Paris area”. The Islamic State (IS) militant group has claimed responsibility for the attacks.

The timing of the Fed hike has been a constant source of concern for financial markets and emerging market economies, which have seen their currencies hammered this year as the dollar has risen sharply on expectations of a USA rate hike.

“We are still short in our efforts to fulfil our last year’s commitment to raise our collective GDP (gross domestic product) by an additional 2% by 2018”.

In his lead intervention at G20 working lunch, Modi also proposed a seven-point agenda on climate change and called for target date before 2030 to reduce high costs of transferring remittances.