For the leaders of the world’s largest economies, finding common ground has never been easy, but the global ramifications of Russia’s war in Ukraine make it even harder to strike a meaningful deal at the G20 summit in This year.

El primer minister de India, Narendra Modi, el anfitrión en esta ocasión, ha prometido que no dejará que Ucrania eclipse las necessidades de los países del llamado Sur Global, en su mayoría en vías de desarrollo, pero muchos de estos problems están estrechamente relacionados con War.

“New Delhi will not want to divert attention from the main agenda, which deals with issues of concern to countries in the Global South,” said Nazia Hussain, associate researcher at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore.

“So while discussions will take place on emerging issues resulting from the war – supply chain security and decoupling, energy security and food supply – the focus should remain on how to mitigate the consequences rather than on the geopolitical and security aspects of the war. war.

But this task was complicated even before the arrival of the leaders at the top.

Russia and China, which have been Moscow’s biggest backers during the war, have blocked attempts to reach a final communiqué over their objections to the Ukrainian wording they signed a year ago during of the G20 summit in Bali, which “most members strongly condemn”. the war.”

The European Union, for its part, said the compromise text offered in India was not strong enough to accept it.

However, European Council President Charles Michel told reporters on Friday that it was important to give India space to work “actively, sometimes probably quietly, to maximize the opportunity to make a statement.”

Russia cut itself off from the world with the invasion of Ukraine, and the EU and others were working to “encourage China to play a positive role globally, to abide by the Charter of the United Nations and to defend the sovereignty of Ukraine,” added Michel.

If the leaders do not resolve the situation, it could be the first time that the group’s summit ends without a declaration, thus tarnishing the image that Modi is trying to project in the world.

Last year Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attended the Bali summit via video link, but Modi did not invite him.

Despite this, the White House has indicated that US President Joe Biden’s agenda includes “mitigating the economic and social impacts of Putin’s war in Ukraine”.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged to Zelensky to keep Ukraine in the talks, telling him in a video call the pair posted on Instagram: “I’m disappointed you haven’t been included, but as you know, we will speak loudly for you”.

Founded in 1999, the G20 was initially the response to global economic challenges, but since then geopolitical tensions have introduced more politics into the discussions, complicating their ability to work effectively, said Ian Lesser, vice chairman of the German Marshall Fund. . the office of the study center in Brussels.

The G20 unites the world’s richest economies with the Group of Seven and is made up of the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Japan, Germany and the European Union as a bloc, as well as Russia and China, among others.

Moscow’s attack on kyiv and Beijing’s growing aggressiveness in the Asia-Pacific region have sparked new tensions, diplomatically and directly confronting some of the most powerful G20 countries, Lesser said.

“Having China and Russia in the same room today is a different deal than it would have been ten years ago,” he added. “Today it is very difficult for any of these large-scale summits to avoid the big issues of the moment, and these big issues are very contentious – the war in Ukraine, the tensions in the Indo-Pacific and even the climate policy – ​​the things that are both at the top of the global agenda but are also very difficult to tackle.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will not visit New Delhi, but will instead send lower-ranking officials.