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“Solidarity in Africa a key point for G20 Foreign Ministers’ meeting” – SABC News
The G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting that kicks off in Johannesburg tomorrow is about solidarity at a time when Africa is facing so many challenges. That’s according to Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Amina Mohammed.
She was speaking in an exclusive interview with SABC News before she departed New York for South Africa.
“For me, it’s one of solidarity and it’s on the back of Africa’s successful African Union elections that happened last week. And I think that it’s important at this time when we’re facing so many challenges in Africa, that we are dealing with the priorities that the South African leadership has set for us. It’s an African agenda, but it is also one that is clearly connected to what the rest of the world will have to do.”
Mohammed has also weighed in on United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio‘s withdrawal of criticism of the G20 theme, which he described as essentially anti-American.
The theme is Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Climate Change.
“I hope that we will see Marco Rubio at future meetings. This is the first of many that will set the agenda…The US, as we hear from the South African government, will be present. I don’t think that you can talk about cover for every human being with the right to have a life of dignity, and it’s expressed in different ways. And for us, inequalities and poverty in the growth agenda, these are important issues. Now, if it’s about inclusion, then every human being has the right to live that life of dignity, to have the right to health, the right to education. And I think that those are the things that we stand for, the principles, the values of the charter. And so we carry that into our work every day. We don’t cover anything. We are very clear about what we stand for.”
Meanwhile, South Africa has been clear that its G20 presidency is a valuable opportunity to place the needs of Africa and the rest of the Global South more firmly on the international development agenda.
The two-day meeting will focus on a number of issues in the run-up to the main G20 leaders summit that will be held in Johannesburg later this year.
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