Geopolitics
New Delhi (JEN): For the first time since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken briefly met his Russian counterpart in a high-level contact between the two countries in New Delhi. more
UN chief urges G20 finance chiefs to support global COVID vaccine plan, climate finance

New York: UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday urged the world’s largest economies to spearhead a global COVID-19 vaccination plan, expand debt relief to developin ...

Trump discusses G20 work, Middle East situation with Saudi King - Reports

Moscow/Sputnik: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has held telephone talks with US President Donald Trump, discussing the work of the G20, the global fight against th ...

COVID-19: UN relief chief urges G20 to step up to avert ‘cascading crises’ in fragile countries

New York: The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting recession are set to trigger the first increase in global poverty in three decades, pushing 265 million people to the point of starvation by ...

A sustainable global economy must arise once COVID-19 pandemic is reversed, UN chief tells G-20 summit

New York : World leaders at the G-20 virtual summit held on Thursday committed to inject over $5 trillion into the global economy to counteract the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

G-20 summit provides chance to rally strongly against coronavirus threat: UN chief

New York : The COVID-19 crisis presents an "extraordinary opportunity" for the world’s leading economic forum to respond to the numerous threats the disease poses to peopl ...

Create conditions for ‘harmony between humankind and nature’, UN chief says on sidelines of G20 in Japan

New York, June 30 (JEN): The world needs to create conditions for “harmony between humankind and nature”, Secretary-General António Guterres said in Osaka, Japan, durin ...

Amidst ‘high political tension’, UN chief appeals to G20 leaders for stronger commitment to climate action, economic cooperation

New York, June 29 (JEN): The annual G20 summit of leaders from the largest and fastest-growing economies, got underway on Friday in Osaka, Japan, against a backdrop of what UN Secretary-G ...

Putin-Trump meeting at G20 may still take place but likely in on-the-go mode - Ryabkov

Prague (Sputnik/UNI): The Russian and US presidents, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, may still meet at the G20 Summit in Japan's Osaka in late June, but if Washington does not give R ...