A good year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the foreign ministers of the G20 group of leading economic powers want to discuss the future of international conflict resolution on Thursday. Germany and the USA are hoping to join forces against Russia at the forthcoming meeting in New Delhi, India. The USA expects a majority of the participating states to condemn the war.
The group of states must “confront Russia’s cynical game, which is trying to drive a wedge into the international community,” said German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock before leaving Berlin on Wednesday. A face-to-face meeting between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Russian and Chinese counterparts, Sergey Lavrov and Qin Gang, is not planned. It is eagerly awaited whether Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov will cause an uproar at the meeting, as was the case at the most recent G20 meeting on the Indonesian island of Bali. At that time he left the hall after his speech and did not listen to the comments of his critics.
India takes a neutral stance on the Russian war of aggression and has good relations with Western countries and Moscow. The recent G20 finance ministers’ meeting in Bengaluru, India, which failed to produce a joint final declaration, also showed that the international community is anything but united on the issue of Ukraine. In addition to Russia, China also did not want to agree to a condemnation of the Russian war of aggression.