The G20 summit in India has agreed on a joint declaration, including a statement on the war in Ukraine.
On the first of their two-day meeting, G20 leaders denounced the use of force for territorial gain but stopped short of directly criticising Russia.
The Ukrainian government said the statement was “nothing to be proud of”.
The summit in Delhi also discussed a number of global issues, including climate change and the debt burden of developing countries.
But it was a day of unexpectedly big headlines at the G20 summit.
Few expected a joint declaration, not least on the first day of the summit given the sharp divisions in the group over the war in Ukraine.
But Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the group had reached consensus on the declaration.
A strong indication that last-minute negotiations were ongoing came in an earlier draft of the declaration accessed by the BBC on Friday – it showed the paragraph on Ukraine was left blank.
The sticking point was the Ukraine war – as it was during the Bali summit last year.
The Delhi declaration appears designed to allow both the West and Russia to find positives. But in the process, it has used language that is not as strong in its condemnation of Moscow as it was in Bali last year.
Credit: bbc.com
