G20 INDIA: The African Union has been made a permanent member of the G20 group of countries after all member countries accepted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s proposal.

“With support from all of you, I invite the African Union to join G20,” Narendra Modi said in his address during session 1 on ‘One Earth’ at Bharat Mandapam.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar then escorted the President of the Union of Comoros and Chairperson of the African Union (AU), Azali Assoumani, to take his seat at the G20 high table.

In June 2023, Prime Minister Modi said that he had written to G20 counterparts to provide the African Union with full membership at this G20 Summit.

PM Modi had proposed that the AU, a bloc of 55 countries from the African continent that was launched in 2002, be given full membership at their request.