The member countries of the G20, which for the most part condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine at the Bali summit, have “not yieldedfacing Moscow, welcomed Friday, November 18 the director general of the Treasury Emmanuel Moulin who had just returned from Indonesia.
The last three meetings of the G20 Finance have not made it possible to adopt a joint statement due to the presence of Russia at the table of this organization which brings together developed states.
A common condemnation
But the Heads of State meeting in Bali this week managed to publish a joint text on Wednesday stipulating that “most“of its members”strongly condemned the war in Ukraine“, noted Emmanuel Moulin who represents France in many economic summits.
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“It is a communiqué in which we did not give in, which condemns the war in Ukraine, which says that the coming era must not be an era of war and, for the first time in the G20 communiqués, indicates that it would be inadmissible to use nuclear weapons“, he continued during an exchange with the press at the French Ministry of the Economy as part of the meetings of the Association of Economic and Financial Journalists (AJEF).
According to him, “all the G20 states wanted to keep this forum, and we succeeded“, noting at the same time the”great effortsof the Indonesian presidency of the G20 to obtain a common text. Indonesian President Joko Widodo stressed on Wednesday that the negotiations had been “very difficult“.
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Russia was represented at this summit by its Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, as President Vladimir Putin did not wish to attend the event.
In addition to the G20, which has experienced several months of blockages since the invasion of Ukraine in February, Mr. Moulin observed that the G7 “showed its cohesionduring this time of crisis, providing support to Ukraine and applying coordinated economic sanctions against Russia.
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