Post by account_disabled on Feb 26, 2024 23:13:08 GMT -5
Leaders failed to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine in a joint statement after China and Russia rejected language blaming Moscow for the conflict, highlighting the lack of global consensus in support of Kiev. The New Delhi summit declaration refers only to the “war in Ukraine,” a formulation that Kiev supporters, such as the United States and NATO allies, have previously rejected because it implies that both sides are equally complicit. That statement, crafted during weeks of negotiations and hours of intense debate among diplomats while the summit was already underway, is a blow to Western countries that have spent the past year trying to convince developing countries to condemn Moscow and support to Ukraine. The previous G20 statement, made in Indonesia last November, referred to the “aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.” Western diplomats said China's refusal to repeat that formulation was instrumental in pressuring host India to propose compromise language.
Referring to the war, India's External It is a fact that today it is a very polarizing issue and there are multiple opinions on it. "There's a spectrum of opinions on that, so I think, to be fair, it was right to put on record what the Jordan Mobile Number List reality was in the meeting rooms." The declaration also contains a commitment from leaders of the world's largest economies to “pursue and encourage efforts to triple global renewable energy capacity,” but does not include any timeline for phasing out fossil fuels. China and Saudi Arabia led efforts to block such language at G20 meetings in July. The adoption of the declaration will be a foreign policy coup for India and its Prime Minister Narendra Modi, after speculation that divisions over Ukraine were too great to bridge. Modi will face voters in an election in which he will seek re-election for a third term in early 2024. "We highlight the human suffering and the added negative impacts of the war in Ukraine with respect to global food and energy security, supply chains, macro-financial stability, inflation and growth," the joint statement said. "There were different opinions and assessments of the situation.
The statement called for a “just and lasting peace in Ukraine,” but did not explicitly link that demand to the importance of Ukraine's territorial integrity, as Western countries had pushed for. It also did not include the statement from the 2022 version that “the majority of members strongly condemned the war.” Jake Sullivan, the US national security adviser, said however that the statement had a “set of important paragraphs” about the war in Ukraine. “From our perspective, it does a very good job of upholding the principle that states cannot use force to pursue territorial acquisitions. . . that the use of nuclear weapons is inadmissible, that a just peace must be based on the principles of the UN Charter,” he added. Overall, the statement was a “vote of confidence that the G20 can come together to address a number of pressing issues, and also to address difficult issues that actually greatly divide members from one another,” Sullivan said. Recommended India, which calls itself the leader of the so-called group of developing countries in the Global South, was also successful in its campaign to have the G20 incorporate the African Union as a full member.
Referring to the war, India's External It is a fact that today it is a very polarizing issue and there are multiple opinions on it. "There's a spectrum of opinions on that, so I think, to be fair, it was right to put on record what the Jordan Mobile Number List reality was in the meeting rooms." The declaration also contains a commitment from leaders of the world's largest economies to “pursue and encourage efforts to triple global renewable energy capacity,” but does not include any timeline for phasing out fossil fuels. China and Saudi Arabia led efforts to block such language at G20 meetings in July. The adoption of the declaration will be a foreign policy coup for India and its Prime Minister Narendra Modi, after speculation that divisions over Ukraine were too great to bridge. Modi will face voters in an election in which he will seek re-election for a third term in early 2024. "We highlight the human suffering and the added negative impacts of the war in Ukraine with respect to global food and energy security, supply chains, macro-financial stability, inflation and growth," the joint statement said. "There were different opinions and assessments of the situation.
The statement called for a “just and lasting peace in Ukraine,” but did not explicitly link that demand to the importance of Ukraine's territorial integrity, as Western countries had pushed for. It also did not include the statement from the 2022 version that “the majority of members strongly condemned the war.” Jake Sullivan, the US national security adviser, said however that the statement had a “set of important paragraphs” about the war in Ukraine. “From our perspective, it does a very good job of upholding the principle that states cannot use force to pursue territorial acquisitions. . . that the use of nuclear weapons is inadmissible, that a just peace must be based on the principles of the UN Charter,” he added. Overall, the statement was a “vote of confidence that the G20 can come together to address a number of pressing issues, and also to address difficult issues that actually greatly divide members from one another,” Sullivan said. Recommended India, which calls itself the leader of the so-called group of developing countries in the Global South, was also successful in its campaign to have the G20 incorporate the African Union as a full member.