G20 summit in Saint Petersburg 2013

The G20 summit in St. Petersburg on September 5 and 6, 2013 was a meeting of the group of the twenty most important industrialized and emerging countries . In addition to leading politicians from these countries, politicians from other countries and representatives of international economic and trade organizations took part.

Content and course of the conference

Topics in Saint Petersburg were:

1. Framework for strong, sustainable and balanced growth;
2. Growth through quality jobs;
3. Reform of international monetary and financial systems;
4. Reform of financial regulation and supervision;
5. Sustainable development of global energy markets;
6. Promoting development for all;
7. Strengthening multilateral trade;
8. Stepping up the fight against corruption.

The Syria conflict was not officially on the agenda, but it dominated the summit.

A statement was made at the end of this summit.

A follow-up meeting on a smaller scale took place on October 24, 2013 in Moscow. Delegates then discussed the progress made in the main areas of work, analyzed the results of the Russian Presidency, explored possible ways to further improve the effectiveness of the G20, and began to discuss the agenda and priorities of the upcoming Australian Presidency.

Participants in the conference

G20

country		ladder	title
	Australia	Bob Carr	Foreign minister
	Argentina	Cristina Fernández de Kirchner	President of Argentina
	Brazil	Dilma Rousseff	president
	Great Britain	David Cameron	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
	Germany	Angela Merkel	Chancellor
	India	Manmohan Singh	prime minister
	Indonesia	Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono	president
	Italy	Enrico Letta	President of the Council of Ministers
	Canada	Stephen Harper	prime minister
	People's Republic of China	Xi Jinping	President
	Mexico	Enrique Peña Nieto	President of Mexico
	Russia	Wladimir Putin	President of Russia
	Saudi Arabia	Abdullah ibn Abd al-Aziz
	United States	Barack Obama	President of the USA
	Turkey	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	Prime Minister
	France	François Hollande	President (France)
	South Africa	Jacob Zuma	president
	South Korea	Park Geun-hye	president
	Japan	Shinzo Abe	Prime Minister of Japan
	European Commission	José Manuel Barroso	President of the European Commission
	European Council	Herman Van Rompuy	President of the European Council

Invited countries

Country / organization			ladder	title
	Brunei	for ASEAN	Hassanal Bolkiah	sultan
	Spain		Mariano Rajoy	Prime Minister
	Kazakhstan	for EAWG , Eurasian Customs Union and CIS	Nursultan Nazarbayev	President of Kazakhstan
	Senegal	for Nepad	Macky Sall	president
	Singapore	for IMF and "Global Governance Group" (3G)	Lee Hsien Loong	prime minister
	Ethiopia	for African Union	Hailemariam Desalegn	Prime Minister

International organizations

organization	ladder
United Nations	Ban Ki-moon
World bank	Jim Yong Kim
IMF	Christine Lagarde
OECD	José Ángel Gurría
World trade organization	Roberto Azevedo
International labor organization	Guy Ryder
Financial Stability Board	Mark Carney

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Syria crisis: G20 summit - September 6 as it happened. The Daily Telegraph , September 9, 2013, accessed May 16, 2019 . 
2. ^ Declaration by the heads of state and government of the G20. (PDF) December 19, 2013, accessed on May 16, 2019 . 
3. ↑ В Москве состоялась заключительная встреча шерп «Группы двадцати». October 24, 2013, accessed October 31, 2013 (Russian). 
4. ↑ лента новостей: euronews: последние мировые новости - видео по запросу