G20 foreign ministers’ meeting ends without joint communique Beijing promotes safeguarding world peace and stability

in the united statesatlanta The meeting of foreign ministers of Group of 20 (G20) concluded. Member states failed to reach consensus on several key issues and no joint communiqué was issued after the meeting. Chinese representative and Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu said G20 member states should shoulder their due responsibilities, become a force to maintain world peace and stability, promote the alleviation of regional hotspot issues, strive to resolve the root causes of conflicts, and strengthen global security governance.

According to the Chinese Foreign Ministry website, Ma Zhaoxu said China supports the G20 to deepen cooperation, continuously improve energy affordability, promote the transformation of energy structure, and improve international energy governance to ensure energy security and achieve sustainable development.

Ma Zhaoxu pointed out that there are no winners in protectionism. It builds walls and barriers, disrupts and breaks chains, disrupts the stability and smoothness of global industrial and supply chains, and harms the interests of all parties. G20 members should deepen policy coordination, strengthen unimpeded trade, leverage innovation empowerment, promote inclusive growth and take practical actions to maintain the stability and smoothness of global industrial and supply chains.

Ma Zhaoxu said that China has always conducted international trade based on the principles of marketization and WTO rules. It must stop politicization, weaponization and pan-security of economic and trade issues, leave alone practicing protectionism in the name of “fair competition”.

In fact, differences arose even before the G20 Foreign Ministers meeting started. Representatives of the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland and other European countries were dissatisfied with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov’s invitation to attend the meeting and boycotted the group photo session. The United States then announced the cancellation of the group photo.

The host, US Secretary of State Rubio, issued a presidential statement after the meeting, replacing the joint communique, which listed a number of priority issues that need to be resolved, including energy, food, freedom of navigation, etc. He acknowledged that there are no universally accepted solutions on many issues, but that some countries have cooperated, particularly on supply chains and critical minerals.