Bali receives G20 leaders for Ukraine summit

Bali (.). Most of the leaders of the Group of Twenty, the group of 20 major rich and developing economies, arrived in Bali on Monday to participate from tomorrow in a summit that is expected to be affected by differences among the members. Regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The Indonesian tourist island received today, amid tight security and a festive atmosphere, the leaders of the group whose planes have landed since the weekend at Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali.

One of the first to arrive was the President of the United States, Joe Biden, who had landed the day before (9:47 pm Sunday, local time, 1:47 pm GMT) on Air Force One, after his participation in Cambodia. At the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit this weekend.

Chinese President Xi Jinping landed today at about 3:15 pm local time (07:15 GMT) on an Air China plane, and a little more than two hours later began his bilateral meeting with Biden, the first that they both held as heads of state, Which has become the climax today.

The other leaders of the group, made up of Germany, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, South Korea, the United States of America, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, the United Kingdom, South Africa, as Turkey and the European Union, with Spain as a permanent guest, appeared on the island.

They include Argentine leader Alberto Fernandez, who is trying to persuade the group to rethink the debt model; British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, who will almost test his diplomatic skills; Al-Kindi, Justin Trudeau; and French Emmanuel Macron.

Today, Macron hosted a dinner with representatives of Argentina, Mexico, South Africa, Senegal and Rwanda, as well as Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, according to the Elysee.

The Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, also landed today on a Spanish Air Force plane after 6:45 pm local time (10:45 am GMT) after stopping in Amman, and was received by the Spanish ambassador to Indonesia. Francisco de Assis Aguilera.

All but three leaders – from Brazil, Mexico and Russia – are expected to participate from tomorrow to Wednesday at the summit.

The most notable absence is that of the Russian, Vladimir Putin, who sent on behalf of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who is already in Bali, and who was rumored to have had to be treated in a hospital on the island, information denied by the Foreign Ministry. The Kremlin.

This is the first summit of G20 leaders after the invasion of Ukraine, which will mark the talks and the final joint declaration, if they can reach consensus, something that has not happened in lower-level meetings during the year.

In addition to the heads of state, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, is also in Bali, as is the Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, among other institutional representatives.

Today, business leaders and political leaders are taking part in a business meeting on the eve of the summit, at a meeting that brought together, among others, Amazon (NASDAQ::) President Jeff Bezos, and Tesla (NASDAQ::) CEO, Elon Musk, who bet on rockets and ground tunnels as transportation the future.

The CEO of Binance, the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange, has defended “better regulation of the sector” after fresh turmoil as a result of the bankruptcy of rival FTX.

For his part, Musk advocated the capabilities of missiles capable of launching from one ground-to-ground platform, as well as tunneling for electric vehicles, two technologies developed by his company, SpaceX and Boring, respectively.

G20 members account for about 90% of global GDP, 80% of world trade and two-thirds of the planet’s population, as well as about 60% of all agricultural land and nearly 80% of global trade in agricultural products.

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