Brazilian diplomacy sees with pessimism the chances of the G20, under the presidency of South Africa in 2025, to wake up a statement of leaders who represent advances in what the group’s agenda has been in the recent period. The summit between this year’s state heads is scheduled for November.
The main reason for pessimism, according to sources of diplomacy near the subject, is the opposition of the United States government under Donald Trump to this agenda, which contains topics such as combating climate change, gender equality and income distribution.
In Brazil’s G20, Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, opposed these items, but did not melt the statement – in the evaluation of these sources – for lack of political weight. The text signed in Rio de Janeiro highlighted climate commitments and even cited the taxation of super rich. The Republican leads to opposition to another level, however.
According to diplomats, it is still unclear whether Trump will go to the summit or choose to “empty it.” For both cases, the perception is that the chances of consensus in a statement are low: first because the Republican will not give in to this type of subject; And second, because the other countries would not accept a more “watery” text than that signed in the state capital.
At G20 meetings in 2025, according to reports made to CNNthe Americans have been signaling a desire for the group to have a “turn”.
The United States will hold the presidency in 2026 and want the organization to be, as at its beginning, a mechanism of economic and financial cooperation and sets aside political and social issues.
During a meeting of Block authorities held at the end of September on the banks of the UN General Assembly in New York, American representative, Allison Hooker, made it clear that Trump intends to remove from the G20 agenda all the topics considered “secondary” to Washington.
According to Hooker, the G20 “needs to go back to its origins,” when it was a forum limited to farm ministers, created in 1999 to discuss international financial crises.
