At the invitation of Indian President Narendra Modi, leaders of the G20 countries visited the Gandhi Memorial, the Raj Ghat, on Sunday. GDP/AFP
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New Delhi
The scene is surreal. Emmanuel Macron barefoot in costume, walking between puddles. The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, the British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, and several world leaders, without shoes. Joe Biden in white slippers. Host of the G20 summit in New Delhi this weekend, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi invited his peers on Sunday morning to Raj Ghat, the Gandhi Memorial. It is sacrilegious to approach in shoes the marble slab and the eternal flame which mark the cremation site of the pacifist and anti-colonialist activist inated in 1948 by a Hindu extremist. On three sides of the monument, the leaders are distributed for a minute of silence. A few steps from Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron and European leaders, supporters of Ukraine, stands Vladimir Putin’s representative, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The day before, indicates a source…
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