The statement, 55 pages long and with several annexes, admits that “there were other points of view and different assessments of the situation and the sanctions” against Moscow.
The text acknowledges that the G20 “is not the forum to resolve security issues” and states that these “security issues can have significant consequences for the world economy.”
“It is the first joint statement to be made since February 2022,” celebrated the Indonesian president and host of the meeting, Joko Widodo.
“Stop the war. I repeat: stop the war. The stakes are high. War will bring only misery to the people”he said in a message during the last discussion session dedicated to digital transformations and repeated later at a press conference.
The final communiqué, reviewed by the heads of delegations, further acknowledges that the conflict “is causing immense human suffering and exacerbating existing fragilities in the world economy.”
In addition, it considers the use of nuclear weapons or threats to resort to them “inadmissible” and calls for the “continuation” of the agreements signed in July to export Ukrainian cereals blocked by the war and Russian fertilizers affected by sanctions.
These pacts, key to world food security, expire next Saturday and there is still no certainty that they will be extended.
However, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said today that his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, He “gave him the green light to renew the agreement.”
“There are ongoing discussions and for now my opinion is that it will continue without any problem,” the president said at a press conference held during the G20 summit on the island of Bali.
“During previous talks with Putin, he gave me the green light to renew these agreements,” He added and anticipated that upon his return from Indonesia he will once again talk with the Kremlin leader.
Ukraine is one of the world’s top grain producers, but had up to 20 million tons of grain blocked in its ports in the wake of Russia’s invasion.
This was reversed with the agreement signed in July, with the mediation of Turkey and the UN, but the Kremlin questions its continuity by arguing that the part that facilitated the sale of its fertilizers was not fulfilled and that the food that leaves Ukraine they are not going to the countries that need it most.
The last plenary session at the G20 was on digital transformations, but the agenda and bilateral meetings were affected by the fall of a missile in Poland, near the border with Ukraine, which killed two people.
Leaders of G7 and NATO countries who were in Bali arranged an emergency meeting, and in a later statement, US President Joe Biden said preliminary information indicates it is “unlikely” the missile was fired. from Russia.
The Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, also spoke about the issue, who told the G20 leaders that “there is a terrorist state” among them, and accused the Kremlin of having launched the missile that fell in Poland and killed two people.
The fall of the projectile is “a real message brought by Russia to the G20 summit,” Zelensky said in the second videoconference message he gave in the framework of the summit.
Beyond the tension generated by the episode and the emergency meetings, the leaders decided to continue their agenda in the G20 as normal.
In this sense, at the beginning of the day, the heads of State and Government and the foreign ministers planted mangroves, a tree in the area that plays a key role in mitigating global climate change and that in many areas was deforested to build shrimp farms.
Then they moved to The Apurva Kempinski hotel to discuss digital transformations, one of the axes of the summit along with food and energy security and health.
Subsequently, Widodo handed over the G20 presidency to India, which will be the country in charge of organizing the ministerial and head of state meetings in 2023.
The host of the forum repeatedly hit a gavel to symbolically mark the end of the summit hosted by his country and then handed it over to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Throughout the day, the leaders who participated in the forum began to return to their respective countries, something that the head of the Russian delegation, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Serguei Lavrov, did prematurely last night.
Argentina’s position
Argentina reiterated the need to review the IMF’s surcharge policy and managed to give continuity to the initiative proposed at the Rome summit last year.
In the spirit of Argentina’s emphasis on social inclusion, the document acknowledges that affordable, high-quality digital connectivity is key to inclusion and digital transformation, and encourages the promotion of digital skills and literacy to reap the benefits of the economy. digital, in particular for women, girls and people in vulnerable situations.
The G20 reiterates the need for developed countries to meet their commitments in the fight against climate change, to jointly mobilize USD 100 billion per year from 2020 to 2025, and to continue deliberating on the need to establish financing based on a floor of USD 100 billion per year, to comply with international climate mitigation and adaptation commitments.
Source: Ambito
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