In an attempt to implement fiscal and climate measures in the midst of a complex international panorama, President Lula da Silva seeks to consolidate his international role during the meeting in Rio de Janeiro
G20 leaders They open this Monday a summit in Rio de Janeiro under pressure to reach an agreement on the COP29in a global context of strong divisions due to the wars of Ukraine and Gaza and the next round of Donald Trump to the White House.
The leaders of the main economies, which represent 85% of global GDP and 80% of greenhouse gas emissions, will seek advance in particular in the financing of the fight against climate change.
The goal is to figure out how to finance $1 trillion a year in climate aid for developing countries, to allow building solar power plants, investing in irrigation or protecting cities against floods.
The European Union It is the world’s leading contributor, but in periods of austerity it is reluctant to increase its international budgets.
Next the minute by minute of the most notable news from the G20 summit in Brazil:
The G20 Summit begins with complaints from the Brazilian intelligence community
Employees of the ABIN agency expressed their concern about the “dismantling” of the body, the lack of security at the meeting of world leaders and the growing Chinese influence in the country.
He G20which just started today in Rio de Janeirobegins with the alarming complaint from Intelis, the Union of Intelligence Professionals of the State of ABIN, the brazilian intelligence agency. In a statement published after the attack last Wednesday in front of the Supreme Court building in Brasilia in which the attacker died, Intelis management denounces, among other things, a “low effective participation of the ABIN in the G20 due to budgetary limitations”. This is due, say intelligence professionals, to the fact that a “dismantling” of his agency, which “is currently experiencing an alarming scenario that increasingly complicates the mission of guarantee the security and sovereignty of Brazil”.
The leaders of the nations of the G20 begin to arrive Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, where the summit will be held this Monday and Tuesday.
Amid diplomatic tensions at the G20 summit, the European Union considers authorizing Ukraine to use long-range weapons against Russia
The high representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrellexpressed this Monday his expectation that the member countries reach an agreement on the authorization for Ukraine use European weapons in attacks against Russian territory.
“I have said time and again that Ukraine should be able to use the weapons we provide it not only to stop arrows but also to be able to hit archers,” he said. Borrell before a meeting in Brussels with the foreign ministers of the UE. “I hope the Member States agree”he added.
Along the same lines, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of FranceJean-Noel Barrot, indicated that the use of long-range missiles against Russia It is an option that his government considers viable. “We have said that it is an option that we would consider if it allows attacks against targets from which Russia attacks the territory of Ukraine”said Barrot.
Argentina will not sign the final G20 communiqué if the text fails to comply with Milei’s personal and ideological perspective
The Argentine president, Javier Milei will review each of the paragraphs of the latest draft of the final communiqué of the G20 of Brazil before signing at the bottom of the page. If the diplomatic text violates his personal and ideological perspective on the sustainable development agenda, climate change, the war in Ukraine and the crisis in the Middle East, will not sign the G20 communiqué and there will be an unexpected crisis in the multilateral forum.
Milei has no intention of fracturing the G20 to deteriorate its institutional role on the global stage, as they have been suggesting for days characterized spokesmen of Lula da Silva’s government.
On the contrary, the Argentine president considers that the G20 plays a role on the international board, but demands that Brazil does not use the G20 agenda to strengthen its domestic policy to the detriment of the permanent interests of all the partners of the multilateral summit.
Brazil’s G20 on the brink of the abyss over Russia’s latest attack on Ukraine and Lula da Silva’s position against Israel
The deliberations of the summit of presidents begin this Monday in Rio de Janeiro, but the lack of an explicit condemnation of Moscow and the direct criticism of the State of Israel promoted by the Brazilian government make it difficult to approve a joint statement that reflects the unified position. of all the member countries of the multilateral forum
(Special envoy to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Lula da Silva negotiates against the clock with the G7 -United States, Germany, Canada, France, Italy, United Kingdom and Japan- to find an exit to the crisis caused by his proposed final statement what was very soft on Russia y critical in extremis with Israel.
