As a result of the G-20 Finance Ministers’ meeting in Bangalore failing to produce a communiqué. The G-20 ministerial has now failed to reach an agreement twice in a week. India brought a summary of the Chair’s remarks as the G-20 meeting’s host nation.
Due to significant disagreements over the Russia-Ukraine conflict between the US-led West and Russia-China on opposite sides. The G20 Foreign Ministers meeting held here on Thursday was unable to reach a consensus on a unified communiqué.
Although this appears to a repetition of previously expressed opinions. It is noteworthy that both the US and India declared that the final paper supported by a resounding majority. Washington supported Delhi’s claim that the Chair’s summary—released by India. As the G-20 Chair—was the result of consensus on a number of topics, which represents a measured step forward.
As a result of the G-20 Finance Ministers’ meeting in Bangalore failing to produce a communiqué. The G-20 ministerial has now failed to reach an agreement twice in a week. India brought a summary of the Chair’s remarks as the G-20 meeting’s host nation.
After the G-20 ministers’ meeting, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said :
“There were differences on the Ukraine conflict which we could not reconcile.” He said that while the Bali declaration had a consensus, some countries felt that it cannot be extrapolated. Referring to Russia and China.
However, he sought to clarify that while there was consensus on “95 per cent” of the issues. There was none on two paragraphs. “Everyone was not on the same page on those two paragraphs,” he said.
Echoing India’s position, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. “What we have seen is the outcome document that reflected the shared agreements on many issues by all foreign ministers.”
With the exception of two nations he referred to as “outliers” and “holdouts.” He said that the G-20 had reached a wide consensus on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. He called out Russia and China as the two without holding back.
Despite India’s efforts to mediate the issues. These two’s objection to mentioning the Russian invasion led to the meeting ending without the common communiqué.
“Russia and China were the only countries that made it clear that they would not sign on to that text.” Blinken said at a press conference, hours after he had a brief meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
He asserted that the US fully backs India’s G20 agenda. The summit, which conducted under India’s leadership, adopted a Chair’s Report and Result statement. Which outlined many important goals for the coalition while unanimity on the unified communique evaded them.