Washington DC: No country, whether America or China, can ignore India.

 In Washington DC, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said India wants to increase its influence in the world as one in every six people is Indian and the world cannot ignore India's economy.

ANI, Washington. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman participated in the panel discussion on 'Bretton Woods Institutions at 80: Priorities for the Next Decade' organized by the Center for Global Development during the World Bank and International Annual Meeting 2024 in Washington DC.

During this, Sitharaman said that India wants to increase its influence in the world, because one out of every six people is Indian and the world cannot ignore India's economy. He further said that no country, be it America which is far away or China which is very close, can ignore India.

When he was asked how India and other large emerging markets can come forward and play a role that will help take ownership of this process and drive the reform. He once said that India's priority is not to impose its dominance. In the sense that we have the largest democracy in the world, we have the largest population in the world, but its influence has to be increased.

Sitharaman further said that the skilled manpower that is there in India today and everywhere is running big companies, which are there to run institutions in big countries, developed countries.

Expressing India's support towards multilateral institutions, the Union Minister said, I think we have followed the policies of strategic and peaceful multilateralism

Sitharaman stressed that multilateral institutions must strengthen themselves for the global good. He said that shaping the future is an ambitious goal and called for the participation of the Bretton Woods institutions in this.