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Donald Trump stands United States apart on global climate change, pandemic responses as G20 wraps up
It was a G20 like no other, staged virtually for pandemic times.
Key points:
- Leaders pledge to “spare no effort” to ensure the fair distribution of vaccines worldwide
- However, the final communique on the pandemic lacked detail on funding
- The G20 also endorsed a plan to extend a freeze in debt service payments by the poorest countries to mid-2021
And the virus was the dominant issue for leaders of the world’s biggest economies as they remotely attended the event, hosted by Saudi Arabia.
There were no press conferences or cameras at the start of bilateral meetings and no chance of recorded slip-ups or missteps.
Calls to boycott the summit in protest of Saudi Arabia’s human rights record were ignored, with all leaders of the world’s 20 biggest…
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