New Delhi/UNI: Foreign Ministers of Brazil, Mauritius and the ILO G20 Sherpa arrived in New Delhi for the G20 Foreign Ministers Meeting to be held on March 1-2, and also attended the Raisina Dialogue.

MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi in a tweet posted: “Arrivals for the 1st #G20India Foreign Ministers’ Meeting have begun!

'Welcoming FM Mauro Vieira of Brazil, FM Alan Ganoo of Mauritius and @ILO G20 Sherpa Richard Marc Samans to New Delhi for the G20 FMM to be held on 1-2 Mar 2023. Ministers will also attend #RaisinaDialogue2023.”

The meeting will be attended by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Australian FM Penny Wong, Britain Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, while China is expected to send Foreign Minister Qin Gang.

Representatives of 40 countries, including non-G20 members invited by India, and multilateral organisations will attend.

India has especially invited leaders of countries including – Nigeria, UAE, Oman, Singapore, Spain, Bangladesh, Egypt, Mauritius, and the Netherlands.

The Ukraine conflict is expected to top the agenda, and for India it will be a challenge to ensure consensus among the members, especially following the G20 Finance Ministers’ Meeting in Bengaluru that failed to see a joint communique issued after Russia and China objected to the wording on the Ukraine conflict.