2024-01-14 06:20:15
The countdown began. The G20 Summit returns to South America. After five years of the Argentine presidency in 2018, this year corresponds to Brazil, where the meetings have already begun that will take place throughout the year until culminating on November 18 and 19 with the Rio de Janeiro Leaders Summit. The heads of state and government of the nineteen member countries, including Argentina, the European and African Union, plus the invited countries, are expected to participate.
During the dialogue and consensus-building process, international organizations will be present; world leaders in the academic, scientific and technological, thought, business, and union fields; Parliaments, Justice, auditors and cities, as well as civil society organizations linked to young people, women, and the environment.
This is an extraordinary opportunity to show and contribute the best of our country. In times of great complexity and enormous challenges, any opportunity to improve Argentina’s reputation is key.
This year there will be thirteen so-called “engagement groups” that will formally participate in the G20, two of which were created during the Argentine presidency in 2018: the U20 (city diplomacy) and the P20 (parliamentary diplomacy).
The rest are the B20 (corporate diplomacy), the L20 (union diplomacy), the J20 (judicial diplomacy), the SAi20 (diplomacy of supervisory institutions), the C20 (civic diplomacy), T20 (think tank diplomacy), the S20 (scientific diplomacy), Y20 (youth diplomacy), W20 (gender diplomacy), O20 (ocean diplomacy), and Startup 2 (technological innovation diplomacy).
Although the term “diplomacy” may be technically controversial in each of the cases mentioned, its use has become widespread to describe the relationship of certain areas, themes and actors with traditional “diplomacy”, the latter carried out by diplomats whose Action, in addition to implying the representation of their respective national states, is specifically regulated by diplomatic law, especially through the Vienna Conventions on Diplomatic and Consultative Relations of 1961 and 1963 respectively.
Thus we find, on the one hand, non-traditional “diplomacies” defined by the character of the actors, whether public (P20, J20, U20, SAi20) or private (B20, C20, L20, O20, S20, T20, Y20 , W20 and Startup 2), although due to the combination of both types of actors in many cases they can be defined as “mixed, public-private” diplomacies. But there are also thematic “diplomacies”, such as those on the oceans and technological innovation, although in the latter they could be incorporated into the “diplomacies” of business and employment; those linked to the actions of the Legislative and Judicial Powers, control and good governance; to urban issues; to the field of civil society, academia and science; of youth and women.
This year’s G20 will renew debates linked to the fight against hunger, poverty and inequality; the three dimensions of sustainable development (economic, social and environmental); and global governance reform.
In addition to the Leaders Summit, scheduled for November 18 and 19, 2024 in Rio de Janeiro, more than one hundred meetings of these working groups and the so-called “task forces” are planned. who participate in the G20.
Brazil has formalized its interest in “stimulating and strengthening a space for civil society participation in debates and policy formulation related to the G20. In relation to this area alone, more than thirty meetings will be held, which will culminate in the so-called “Social Summit” to be held on November 15, 16 and 17, a prelude to the Leaders Summit.
Argentina has a traditional diplomacy of excellence. And it also has top-level references to accompany the government in the debates on the G20 agenda from the so-called “plural diplomacies”: powerful business and worker confederations; extremely solid academic, scientific and thought communities, which belong to a highly present and active civil society. Added to this are organizations linked to the care of the environment and natural resources, youth and the empowerment of women; as well as a dynamic and avant-garde sector of technological innovators.
From the governmental point of view, the G20 experiences of 2018 and subsequent ones allowed us to hone the capacities of Argentine diplomacy in Parliament, Justice, audit institutions, as well as cities.
2024 will be a very complex and challenging year for our country, for the region and for the world.
Let’s take advantage of the opportunity that this new Summit in Brazil gives us to join forces and demonstrate that Argentina is in a position to contribute to the construction of a better world, because this will undoubtedly contribute to improving our reputation. And boy do we need it.
*Executive Director of the Diploma in Parliamentary Diplomacy at the Universidad Austral.
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