The divergent positions between the United States with its Western allies and Russia on the war in Ukrainefaced this Thursday at the G20 foreign ministers meetingevidenced the fractures of the multilateral system after two consecutive meetings without agreement and avoiding the joint photo.
The meeting repeated the same pattern that thwarted the G20 finance ministers meeting a week ago, with Russia and China showing their rejection of the same issues regarding the war in Ukraine, key for the Group of Twenty.
With Washington and its allies on one side and Russia and China on the other, the forum for the world’s leading economies and emerging countries It was divided into two poles and it is increasingly difficult to make progress on other challenges that affect nations as a whole.
apportionment of blame
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov directly blamed the West of thwarting the approval of a joint declaration with its efforts to bring the Ukrainian conflict to the fore. “Unfortunately, the joint declaration of the G20 ministers failed to be approved; our Western colleagues, just like a year ago during the Indonesian presidency, tried (…) with lies and rhetorical statements, to bring to the fore the situation in Ukraine”, he stated this Thursday at a press conference.
The United States argued that the damage to the system created to seek joint solutions to global challenges “in many ways comes directly from Russia, which has been violating the principles at the heart of that system; and the system was designed for a group,” said US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
In many ways they come directly from Russia, which has been violating the principles.”
The head of US diplomacy and his Russian counterpart held their first meeting outside the G20 meeting in the Indian capital since the outbreak of the conflict with Ukraine, in which Blinken urged Moscow to end the war.
Spain’s position
For his part, the Spanish Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, had advanced the difficulties of an agreement at the end of the meeting on Thursday, assuring that Lavrov brought to the meeting “the Russian narrativedenying the illegality of the war and not listening to all those who demand a peace for Ukraine”.
The strong positions of Russia and the US were from the beginning a concern for India, the group’s rotating presidency and host of the event, which tried hard to allow fundamental issues such as the food and energy crisis, which especially affects developing nations, to , will not be overshadowed by a lack of agreement.
“The world looks to the G20 to respond to international challenges,” said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the opening of the meeting, before noting that “global governance has failed” in his mandate to avoid wars.
Source: Lasexta
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