The foreign ministers of the leading industrialized and developing countries (G20) failed to agree on a joint final declaration at a meeting in India over the dispute over the war in Ukraine.
Tagesschau writes about this.
Instead, India, which chaired the meeting, released its own summary of the discussions.
The majority of states once again strongly condemned Russia's aggressive war and demanded the unconditional withdrawal of troops from the territory of Ukraine. Foreign Ministers of Russia and China Sergey Lavrov and Qin Gang disagreed with the two relevant points.
Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar told reporters at the end of the meeting that a joint final declaration was not adopted because of "very polarized views of some countries".
He emphasized that India had made great efforts to find a compromise. Jaishankar said the ministers reached agreement on many issues, including the need for reforms, multilateralism, food security, global health and climate change.
Earlier, the United States expressed confidence that the G20 member Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine will be condemned at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in India, which begins on Wednesday evening.
Before that, it became known that the EU delegation will not support the statement at the meeting of foreign ministers of the "Group of Twenty" in India, if it does not contain a condemnation of Russia's war against Ukraine.
India, as the host, said the war in Ukraine would be an important topic of discussion, but "issues related to food, energy and fertilizer security, the impact of the conflict on the economic challenges we face" would also receive "due consideration attention".
The foreign ministers' meeting comes days after the G20 finance ministers' meeting in Bengaluru failed to reach a consensus on a joint statement.
The reason was the reluctance of Russia and China to agree on formulations acceptable to others regarding the Russian Federation's war against Ukraine.
