The G-20, the club of the world’s major economies, ended its annual summit in Brazil on Tuesday with a modicum of unity but failure to reach a consensus on global challenges. The meeting, marked by the wars in Ukraine, Gaza and Lebanon and the imminent return of Donald Trump to the White House, has shown the extent of internal disagreements both in terms of the war horizon and on commitments to fight hunger and poverty, the great priority for the host president, Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The final declaration of the participating leaders, released on Monday night, calls for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, to urgently speed up the delivery of humanitarian aid, but without mentioning either Israel or Egypt, which control the border crossings. The statement on Ukraine is even more generic, avoiding a reference to territorial integrity and limiting itself to encouraging any effort to achieve “a just and lasting peace.”
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