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The United States, the EU and other Western allies had agreed to remove from the meeting's communique condemnation of Russian President Vladimir Putin's war against Ukraine, in exchange for promises from the 20 states (including Russia and China) to respect the territorial integrity and work for a “just peace”. peace” for kyiv. “This is a setback,” said Sarang Shidore, director of the Quincy Institute's Global South program. The degree to which the Western allies were willing to compromise, even though Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Putin did not attend the summit, highlighted how interested they were in saving the credibility of a group that had been under severe pressure since Russia invaded Ukraine just over 18 months ago. back. "If we wrote the text ourselves, it would be very different," said a senior EU official. “It is a process of building a global consensus. So if this means making commitments, then this is what… . . needs to be done. officials echoed that argument. The West needed the big developing countries on its side to have any chance of pressuring Russia to maintain control of global rules and achieve peace in Ukraine.
The world's major economies (including, by the way, Brazil, India and South Africa) are united in the need to uphold international law and for Russia to respect international law," said Jon Finer, US deputy national security adviser. Russia's top negotiator hailed the statement - which also calls for a return to the Black Sea grain deal to export Ukrainian food products Jordan Mobile Number List from which Moscow has withdrawn - as "balanced". Ukraine, however, condemned the change in rhetoric as “nothing to be proud of.” Having accepted that they cannot force Putin to back down on their own, New Delhi's statement represents the most far-reaching effort by Washington, Brussels and other Western capitals to forge a shared position with the world's most powerful developing economies. Indian leader Narendra Modi (right) with Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Saturday. Chinese President Xi Jinping stayed away from the summit Evan Vucci/Pool/AP It is also a largely unexpected victory for Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, who faces national elections next year.
Modi's decision to turn his rotating G20 presidency into a year-long platform to promote India's culture, foreign policy objectives and ambition to serve as a leader of developing countries in the so-called Global South has given its fruits, analysts said. "Washington has clearly gone the extra mile to ensure that its burgeoning and increasingly close partner, India, was not embarrassed by what would otherwise have been the first G20 without a joint statement," Shidore said. Since India's G20 presidency began in December, working groups of central bankers, education, health, tourism and other ministers preceding this weekend's leaders' summit had sought to break the deadlock over the “ Bali paragraph”, text of the final meeting of the G20. Summit held in Indonesia last November that condemned Russian “aggression” in Ukraine. Russia and China vetoed the text, and many developing nations had expressed displeasure that it remained in this year's declaration. While India continued to express optimism that it could find consensus at the summit, many foreign delegations were skeptical.
The world's major economies (including, by the way, Brazil, India and South Africa) are united in the need to uphold international law and for Russia to respect international law," said Jon Finer, US deputy national security adviser. Russia's top negotiator hailed the statement - which also calls for a return to the Black Sea grain deal to export Ukrainian food products Jordan Mobile Number List from which Moscow has withdrawn - as "balanced". Ukraine, however, condemned the change in rhetoric as “nothing to be proud of.” Having accepted that they cannot force Putin to back down on their own, New Delhi's statement represents the most far-reaching effort by Washington, Brussels and other Western capitals to forge a shared position with the world's most powerful developing economies. Indian leader Narendra Modi (right) with Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Saturday. Chinese President Xi Jinping stayed away from the summit Evan Vucci/Pool/AP It is also a largely unexpected victory for Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, who faces national elections next year.
Modi's decision to turn his rotating G20 presidency into a year-long platform to promote India's culture, foreign policy objectives and ambition to serve as a leader of developing countries in the so-called Global South has given its fruits, analysts said. "Washington has clearly gone the extra mile to ensure that its burgeoning and increasingly close partner, India, was not embarrassed by what would otherwise have been the first G20 without a joint statement," Shidore said. Since India's G20 presidency began in December, working groups of central bankers, education, health, tourism and other ministers preceding this weekend's leaders' summit had sought to break the deadlock over the “ Bali paragraph”, text of the final meeting of the G20. Summit held in Indonesia last November that condemned Russian “aggression” in Ukraine. Russia and China vetoed the text, and many developing nations had expressed displeasure that it remained in this year's declaration. While India continued to express optimism that it could find consensus at the summit, many foreign delegations were skeptical.