The Group of Thirty (G30) hosted its premiere annual event, the International Banking Seminar, on Sunday, October 17. During the event, Nirmala Sitharaman, Finance Minister, Government of India underlined the need for the World Health Organisation (WHO) to be strengthened for a more effective response to new challenges. She stressed on the need to keep open supply chains for vaccine raw materials and components to help enhance vaccine production.

She also highlighted the need of an international financial architecture to fight the COVID19 pandemic across the globe. The FM supported the need of new financial instruments to focus and press forward green initiatives.

The Group of Thirty, established in 1978, is an independent global body comprised of economic and financial leaders from the public and private sectors and academia. It aims to deepen understanding of global economic and financial issues, and to explore the international repercussions of decisions taken in the public and private sectors.