New Delhi:  Thailand Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has said his nation is willing to forge development ties with India.

India is the current G20 chair.

“Thailand stands ready to forge development partnerships with India as the current G20 Chair in safeguarding the common interests of the Global South in an inclusive manner, so that we can deliver sustainable and resilient growth for our future generations,” Prayut Chan-o-cha was quoted as saying by ANI in his address at the Voice of the Global South Summit.'.

Prayut Chan-o-cha said that Global South must remain united and presented three ideas on how nations can leverage India’s G20 chairmanship to amplify the voice of developing nations. In his virtual address at the Voice of Global South summit, he called the theme of the summit “extremely timely and relevant.” He lauded India’s leadership in placing development agenda at the summit.

“The theme of today’s Summit “Human-centric Development” is extremely timely and relevant, as our people are now faced with pandemic, climate change and global geopolitical tensions that result in soaring inflation as well as food and energy crises.

 These factors have inflicted the largest cost of living crisis of the 21st century” upon the most vulnerable among us,” Prayut Chan-o-cha said.

India convened the Voice of the Global South Summit to bring together countries of the Global South to share their views on current global challenges and urgently find common solutions to development imperatives, to ensure that India’s G20 Presidency better reflects the underrepresented views of non-G20 developing countries.

The outcomes of the said Summit will ultimately feed into processes leading up to the G20 New Delhi Summit, which will take place during 9 -10 September 2023 under the theme “One Earth, One Family, One Health”.