JOHANNESBURG — President Lee Jae Myung attended the Group of 20 (G20) summit on Saturday, the place he’s anticipated to pledge Korea’s energetic position in addressing key world points, together with inclusive development and local weather change.
This yr’s G20 summit runs by Sunday and brings collectively leaders of main economies — except U.S. President Donald Trump — underneath the theme, “Solidarity, Equality, Sustainability.”
Forward of the summit, Lee was welcomed by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, the host of this yr’s gathering, on the summit venue.
Throughout the first session on inclusive and sustainable financial development, Lee plans to introduce Korea’s fiscal coverage initiatives and suggest a number of measures, together with decreasing debt burdens on growing nations, restoring the multilateral buying and selling system and enhancing the effectiveness of improvement cooperation, the presidential workplace mentioned.
On the second session centered on world resilience, Lee will emphasize the significance of joint efforts to deal with the local weather disaster, strengthen disaster-response capability and tackle world meals insecurity. He may also define Seoul’s initiatives in local weather change and its contribution to catastrophe reduction in growing nations.
The G20 is a grouping of 19 superior and growing economies in addition to the European Union and the African Union. It represents 85 % of world gross home product and round two-thirds of the world’s inhabitants.
On the sidelines of the summit, Lee will maintain a collection of bilateral and multilateral conferences.
He plans to satisfy with leaders from MIKTA — a bunch of 5 middle-power nations composed of Korea, Mexico, Indonesia, Turkey and Australia — to debate methods to strengthen multilateral cooperation on world points.
Lee can be scheduled to carry separate talks with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to debate bilateral relations.
On Sunday, he plans to attend the third session of the summit and meet with Korean residents in South Africa. Later, he’ll fly to Turkey on Monday, the ultimate cease of his four-nation swing, which additionally included stops within the United Arab Emirates and Egypt.
