Under the slogan “One land, one family, one future“New Delhi will receive representatives of the G20, made up of 19 countries and the European Union, which together make up 85% of global wealth, although there will be big absences.
The presidents of Russia and China, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinpingwill not participate in the summit that will take place between September 9 and 10.
Xi Xinping and Putin, the big absences from the G20
The leaders of two of the greatest world powers are undoubtedly the absences that will resonate the most at this summit. Neither country officially detailed why they will not go.
On the Russian side, Putin’s absence was not surprising since he had not participated in the G20 last year in Bali and had only been virtually at the Brics meeting in South Africa. The Russian president knows the risk of appearing at these events since He has an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the case that investigates him for deportation of children in occupied areas of Ukraine.
The person in charge of representing Russia will be the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov. As for China, the Government announced that Xi Jinping’s replacement will be Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang.
The summit comes at one of the lowest points in decades of the bilateral relationship between China and India. The relationship worsened after a border clash in Galwan Valley in June 2020, the worst in 45 among nuclear powers. At least 20 Indian soldiers died and 76 were injured and on the Chinese side there were four fatalities and one injured.
The Foreign Minister of India, Subrahmanyam Jaishankarruled out that the absence of Putin and Xi had anything to do with his country: “I don’t think it has anything to do with India, I think whatever decision they made, they know best.“, he stated in dialogue with the Indian agency ANI.
Who will attend the G20 summit in New Delhi
Despite the absence of these two references in world geopolitics, the summit of the G20 will develop normally with almost all the leaders of the countries that make it up present.
The president of USA, Joe Bidenarrives in India to enhance its alliances and offer aid to developing countries. From Washington they assure that they will take advantage of the difficulties that China is going through.
It will also address issues such as “combat climate change or mitigate the economic and social impacts of the Russian war in Ukraine,” said his national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
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Indiathe new most populous nation in the world, has the rotating presidency of the G20 and its Prime Minister Narendra Modi He will take the opportunity to put his country at the center of the international stage. Modi is expected to push for expand group to 21 members with the inclusion of the African Uniona movement supported by Biden.
On the Latin American side, after the absence of Jair Bolsonaro last year, Brazil will once again be represented by its head of state, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvawhich returns to this international forum.
Brazil will take over 2024 G20 presidency and the following year it will host the BRICS summit and the COP30 climate conference.
Of the rest of the Latin American countries, President Alberto Fernández will attend on behalf of Argentina. The Mexican Andrés Manuel López Obrador will be absent of the summit as he has done in the previous ones.
The German Chancellor Olaf Schölzthe French president Emmanuel Macron and the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyenwill be some of the representatives of the European Union. The president of the Spanish government, Pedro SanchezI was planning to travel to New Delhi but canceled after testing positive for Covid-19 and it will be another of the great absences.
G7 members such as the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan and Italy will have their respective prime ministers Rishi Sunak, Justin Trudeau, Fumio Kishida and Giorgia Meloni.
The Indonesian president will be from the Asia-Pacific region Joko Widodohis South Korean counterpart Yoon Suk Yeoland the Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
The Turkish president is also expected Recep Tayyip Erdoganto the Saudi prince Mohamed bin Salman and to the president Cyril Ramaphosa from South Africa, the only country from this continent in the group.
The general secretary of the UNAntónio Guterres will attend as an observer, as will the leaders of the IMF and the World Bank.
Source: Ambito
