Brazil trusts that Trump will respect the agreements reached at the G20 summit

Brazil trusts that the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, will respect the main agreements reached at the next G20 summit, which will be held in Rio de Janeiro on November 18 and 19, official sources said today.

“One of the objectives of the Brazilian Presidency [do G20] “was to focus on the search for concrete results around issues that can generate consensus,” declared Ambassador Mauricio Lyrio, head of the Brazilian delegation to the G20.

Among the agreements that he considered Trump would not oppose included the creation of Global Alliance against Hunger and Povertyto which the Government of the current North American president, Joe Biden, who will be present at the Rio de Janeiro summit, has already announced the accession of the United States.

This will be, according to Lyrio, the greatest legacy that the Brazilian presidency of the G20 will leave, which has emphasized the need to overcome all existing inequalities in the world.

“There is no country that considers it negative to lift more than 700 million people out of hunger,” Lyrio said, despite expressing some reservations about the positions the United States will take starting January 20, 2025, when Trump takes office.

“On other issues, such as the fight against climate change, we already know the positions of several countries and, in the case of President Trump, we know what he did” in the previous legislature, he indicated, alluding to the North American leader’s refusal to the threat of global warming.

The Brazilian diplomat indicated, however, that these issues will be the subject of subsequent conversations and negotiations, which will continue in 2025, when the G20 will be chaired by South Africa, and in 2026, the year in which the group will be led precisely by the United States.

Lyrio also highlighted that the work of the G20 throughout this year, under the leadership of Brazil, resulted in a total of 41 declarations at the ministerial level, which must be endorsed in Rio de Janeiro.

These documents will be attached to a joint statement by G20 leaders, which is “still under negotiation”, aimed at reaching consensus language on issues that have generated controversy in ministerial negotiations, including conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East. .

Another issue that generated some divergences for greater inclusion of women in different areas of society, a point that in the preparatory meetings for the summit did not have the support of some governments, such as the Argentine, whose president, Javier Milei, has already confirmed his presence at the Rio de Janeiro summit.