The EU assured that the G20 has ceased to be an economic forum and has become a geopolitical forum

The high representative of the European Union (EU) for foreign policy, Josep Borrell, said on Friday that the G20 has become a geopolitical forum where they appear”the same faults as the others”, a day after the meeting of foreign ministers the group was left without a common agreement due to the tension on the war in Ukraine.

“The G20 has a specific role to play, but it is no longer an economic forum, it has become a geopolitical forum.Borrel said in New Delhi while addressing the Raisina Dialogue, India’s annual geopolitical conference, co-hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Observer Research Foundation (ORF).

Despite the misunderstanding between the G20 foreign ministerswhich remained without a consensus, as happened last week during the finance meeting in the Indian city of bangaloreBorrell said that “there has been a big improvementat the Bali Leaders’ Summit last year.

“In Bali, the (Russian Foreign) Minister Lavrov He came, he spoke and he left. At least this time he stayed and listened.”

He EU High Representative noted that the Foreign Ministers G20 “they found the same flaws as in other forums”, with the tension between UNITED STATES with their allies West there Russia on the war in Ukraine, as well as the friction between Washington and Beijing.

“In the world today, we have two trends…one is the competition between China and the United States, which is going to be one of the great strategic forces of this century and it is going to intensify, and the second is that we do not live in a world that is not multilateral but multipolar,” he said.

United States Secretary of State, Anthony Blinkaccused Russia and its actions in Ukraine of being responsible for the failures of multilateral systemswhile Lavrov accused the West of obstructing the passage of a joint statement.

China, for its part, denounced the United States for “Feeding the Flames of War” when sending weapons to Ukraine.

In response, Australia called on the Beijing regime to use its leaders “responsibly” to end the Russian invasion of Ukrainein addition to insisting that “do the right thing” and does not consider the possibility of supply weapons to Russiasaid the Pacific country’s foreign minister, Penny Wang.

“President Zelensky said he wanted to believe that China would do the right thing and not supply weapons to Russia.. This is not just Australia’s call, but the call of all countries,” Wong said.

The minister, who is in full swing to normalize bilateral relations with Beijing, which had been frozen in 2018 for various issues, noted that “the world expects responsible leadership from China as far as Ukraine is concerned, especially given its close relations with Russia.

However, he stressed that the end of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022, “lies at Russia’s feet”.

Wong did not directly allude to the accusations made by the US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinkwho assured in the middle of last month that his country feared that China ‘plans to provide lethal support’ to Russiaa fear shared by the European Union, but denied by Beijing.

The war in Ukraine is one of the crucial problems of the g20 meetingwhich brings together the greatest world powers and which is currently divided by the divergent positions between Washington and their allies on one side and Moscowwhich has the support of China, when it comes to reaching agreements on this conflict.

The strong positions of Russia and the United States have from the start been a concern for India, the group’s rotating presidency and host of the event, which has worked to allow fundamental issues such as the crisis food and energy, which particularly affects developing countries, will not be obscured by a lack of agreement.

(With information from EFE)

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