melons macron g20 bali what happened

The G20 devoted mainly to the war in Ukraine ended on November 16 in Bali, Indonesia. Indonesian President Joko Widodo has handed over to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In fact, India will host the next summit in 2024.

Next year will likely mark India’s rise to global superpower status as the big Asian country is set to overtake China as the world’s most populous nation. “The majority of G20 members condemn the war in Ukraine,” reads the final communiqué of the summit which has just ended in Bali. “We reiterated our national positions expressed in other forums. Including the United Nations Security Council and the United Nations General Assembly which (…) strongly deplores the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. And it demands its complete and unconditional withdrawal from the territory of Ukraine”.

Giorgia Meloni. Photo Ansa/Chigi Filippo Attili

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni also expressed satisfaction with the G20. “There was the complex issue of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine,” he told a news conference. “The ingredients were there for the G20 to end in failure, but it was a success. The most complex issue was the management of Russian aggression against Ukraine”. For Meloni, success is represented by the “bargaining of wheat”. A point which I myself underlined and which garnered the support of all leaders, including Russia,” the prime minister said.

The Italian point of view

“Regarding the Ukraine affair, we all realize that we have to work towards a solution to the crisis, but we cannot ignore the will of the nation under attack. We hope to find an agreement with Zelensky to get out of the conflict as soon as possible.” “I admit that I was not able to organize all the bilateral agreements requested with Italy,” Meloni told the G20. However, I believe that a decisive element is the idea of ​​a solid and stable government, which gives a long-term projection and which makes it easier to imagine Italy as fundamental for relations”, he added. .

The meeting with Biden

“Yesterday there was a long and very cordial conversation with the President of the United States, Joe Biden,” Meloni added. “We had promised to see each other very soon”. With President Biden “we talked about energy, the United States guarantees its willingness to increase the supply of gas”. “The question of prices remains open but we have found an administration open to reasoning with the European Union.” Objective: “Find a solution to control prices, given that LNG suppliers are private companies,” said the Prime Minister, referring to the bilateral agreement with the American president.

Giorgia Meloni with Joe Biden during the bilateral meeting during the G20 in Bali. Photo Ansa/Chigi Filippo Attili

Frost with Macron at the G20

During the G20, Giorgia Meloni also met the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, to talk about immigration. On the other hand, the gel with Emmanuel Macron remained intact, despite the telephone conversation between Mattarella and the head of the Elysée after the diplomatic crisis following the landing in Toulon and not in Catania of the ship Ocean Viking loaded with refugee migrants. “With the French president, there was no way to investigate the events that concern us,” declared the Italian prime minister. “But we don’t need to go to Bali to talk about it, we focused on something else. I spoke about it to the President of the European Council Michel over a coffee. We talked about the need to take the file in hand and talk about it at European level.

Meloni with, a stone’s throw away, Macron, at the G20. Photo Ansa/Chigi Filippo Attili