Anthony Albanese said the summit had resulted in “the strongest language yet to be agreed by the international community” on Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese hailed the G20 summit for delivering what he described as the harshest international rebuke yet of Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine, even as the leaders’ declaration watered down its comments on the conflict and the statement drew praise from Moscow.
Instead, this year’s G20 declaration did not apportion blame for the 18-month-long conflict and urged all states to, “act in a manner consistent with the purposes and principles of the UN Charter”. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who will host the G20 in Rio de Janeiro in 2024, said Putin would not be arrested if he travelled to Brazil next year.
While Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi avoided the embarrassment of presiding over the first G20 summit not to issue a joint declaration, the negotiations went on until the last minute after weeks of calls from the US and Europe for the group of the world’s largest economies to take a stronger stance on the conflict.
“This weak G20 statement is not only cowardly by not even mentioning Russia or its ongoing war crimes but completely fails to address the responsibility the G20 should have to stop Russia and its geopolitical weapons,” said Svitlana Romanko, the director of Ukrainian advocacy group Razom We Stand. In their declaration, the leaders of the world’s largest emitters committed to “urgently accelerate our actions to address environmental crises and challenges including climate change” despite climate scientists warning deeper cuts were needed to stop the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels.
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