G20 summit in Riyadh 2020

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The G20 summit in Riyadh 2020 is a meeting of the G20 nations that is expected to be held on November 21 and 22, 2020 in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh.

Attendees

Guests were the chairmen of the New Partnership for Africa's Development ( Macky Sall ), the Gulf Cooperation Council ( Chalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan ) and the Association for Southeast Asian Nations ( Nguyễn Xuân Phúc ), the Prime Minister of Spain ( Pedro Sánchez ), the Prime Minister of Singapore ( Lee Hsien Loong ) and the King of Jordan ( Abdullah II. Bin al-Hussein ), as well as the President of Egypt ( Abdel Fattah el-Sisi ) and the Federal President of Switzerland ( Simonetta Sommaruga ) were invited.

Presidency

The G20 summit in Riyadh will be chaired by the Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz . occur.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia assumed the G20 presidency in December 2019 in the run-up to the summit of heads of state and government, which will take place in Riyadh from November 21-22, 2020. The Kingdom will lead the work of the G20 under the theme "Realizing Opportunities of the 21st Century for All" and will focus on three goals:

  • Empowering people by creating the conditions in which all people - especially women and young people - can live, work and thrive.
  • Safeguarding the Planet : By promoting collective efforts to protect our global commons.
  • Shaping new frontiers : by adopting long-term and bold strategies to share the benefits of innovation and technological advancement.

First Sherpa meeting

First Sherpa meeting as part of the G20 presidency of Saudi Arabia

The meeting was chaired by Fahad Almubarak, the Saudi Sherpa , who explained: "The G20 has a responsibility to the world to overcome current and emerging problems, to address global challenges together and to make the world a better place for all."

Siding

On the sidelines of the summit, Saudi Arabia will organize preparatory ministerial meetings as well as other meetings of senior government officials and representatives of the private sector and non-governmental organizations.

Emergency summit

On March 26, 2020, members of the G20 held an emergency summit via video calling and video conference to plan a coordinated global response to the pandemic amid the 2019-2020 COVID-19 pandemic . Chaired by Saudi Arabian King Salman, who chairs the 2020 G20 Summit, the meeting aimed to find ways to address the economic impact of the virus on the global economy, affecting people due to the worldwide imposed bans and curfews lose their jobs and their income.

The non-governmental organization Amnesty International , which focuses on human rights, expressed its disappointment at the exclusion of human rights-compliant action plans from the emergency summit. Amnesty International made a number of demands, such as: B. moving towards a low and carbon free economy, ensuring access to information for all and fully integrated plans from a gender perspective. In addition, the non-governmental organization also called for the release of pre-trial detainees and prisoners of conscience such as Raif Badawi of Saudi Arabia, Loujain al-Hathloul and Samar Badawi to prevent the prisoner population and the possible spread of the coronavirus due to their low immunity.

Historical background

Saudi Arabia's first participation in the G20 meeting took place in 2008 at the 2008 Washington G20 Summit in Washington . At that time, and as the world was suffering from a global crisis, Saudi Arabia was the tenth largest sovereign wealth fund in the world and the second largest oil reserves. Saudi Arabia originally joined the G20 because of its economic importance as an effective price force in the energy market.

Web links

Individual proof

  1. ↑ Saudi Arabia to host G20 summit in 2020. Retrieved on April 18, 2020 .
  2. ↑ https://www.spa.gov.sa/viewfullstory.php?lang=en&newsid=1914223#1914223
  3. ↑ a b c The history of Saudi participation in the G20 summits. June 28, 2019, accessed April 18, 2020 .
  4. ↑ G20 2020 Saudi Arabia. Retrieved April 18, 2020 (American English).
  5. ↑ Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor: G20 to hold emergency video summit to discuss coronavirus . In: The Guardian . March 26, 2020, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed April 18, 2020]).
  6. ↑ https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/IOR3020452020ENGLISH.PDF