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The opposition's swipe came shortly after BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra shared a document related to Modi's visit to Indonesia.
The most significant among the deliverables envisaged in the summit is a coronavirus vaccine initiative that will allow new manufacturing capacity to be added in India for exports to the Indo-Pacific region.
They make up nearly a third of the world's population and account for 29 per cent of global gross domestic product.
The APEC, SAARC, BRI and now RCEP are instances of groupings which have become out of range for India for various reasons.
A few days before India opted out of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, Kerala Assembly had unanimously passed a resolution against the deal.
The original RCEP was aiming to facilitate the creation of the biggest free-trade region in the world as the 16-nation grouping is home to 3.6 billion people, or nearly half the world's population.
Negotiations to finalise the long-overdue Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership are in the final stages.
Globally, up to 5 trillion single-use plastic bags are used each year, according to the United Nations Environment Programme. Of 300 million tonnes of plastic waste the world produces annually, 8 million end up in the oceans, killing marine life and entering the human food chain.