Macron also reacted to kyiv’s criticism of the resolution arising from the meeting of the world’s largest economies. “There is no ambiguity” in Russia’s condemnation, says the French leader.
French President Emmanuel Macron stated this Sunday that the G20 summit “once again confirms Russia’s isolation,” arguing that “there is no ambiguity” in the declaration approved among the members of the group on Ukraine.
“The G20 has indicated very clearly that it supports a just and lasting peace, which is the opposite of what Russia is proposing, which suggests a ceasefire and not a lasting and just peace,” Macron said at a news conference in New Delhi. , India. , where the 18th meeting of the G20 (group of the 19 largest economies in the world and the European Union, joined since Saturday by the African Union) took place this weekend.
The French head of state responded to questions that confronted him with Ukraine’s criticism of the G20’s lack of express condemnation of the Russian invasion of the country in February 2022.
The final declaration of the summit calls on “all States” to avoid “the threat or use of force to seize territories”, but does not condemn the war in Ukraine.
Emmanuel Macron noted that the New Delhi summit reiterated, in writing, the G20’s commitment to the United Nations Charter, which “is violated by Russia.”
“There is therefore no ambiguity,” stressed the French president, expressing his general satisfaction with the results obtained in India, which chaired the G20.
The next G20 summit will take place in November 2024, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which assumed the rotating presidency of the G20 this Sunday at the end of the New Delhi meeting.
The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, stated in the last session of the summit, which he considered successful, that G20 members should not allow “geopolitical issues to block the discussion agenda.”
“We have no interest in the G20 being divided. We need peace and cooperation instead of conflicts,” she stressed.
For kyiv, which spoke through a Foreign Ministry spokesperson, “the G20 has nothing to be proud of.”
Russia, on the other hand, considered the India summit a success.
“We were able to abort the West’s attempts to ‘Ukrainize’ the summit agenda,” said the head of Russian diplomacy, Sergei Lavrov, who traveled to New Delhi to replace President Vladimir Putin, whom Lula da Silva promises to invite to the summit. summit in Rio de Janeiro, despite the fact that Putin has an international arrest warrant for war crimes that Brazil will theoretically be obliged to comply with under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
“If I am president of Brazil and he [Putin] “If you come to Brazil there is no reason to be arrested,” Lula da Silva said, however, in statements to an Indian television channel.
Source: Observadora
