Kyiv criticized the final declaration of the G20 summit

Kyiv is dissatisfied with the wording on the conflict in Ukraine, which is contained in the final declaration of the Group of Twenty (G20) summit in India and believes that Ukraine should have been invited to the negotiations. This was stated by the official representative of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Oleg Nikolenko on Facebook (owned by Meta, a company recognized as extremist and banned in Russia).

“In terms of Russian aggression against Ukraine, the G20 has nothing to be proud of. Obviously, the participation of the Ukrainian side would allow the participants to better understand the situation,” he wrote.

Nikolenko expressed gratitude to the partners who tried to include “stronger” language in the text of the declaration.

In the final statement G20 participants acknowledged the differing assessments of the situation in Ukraine among members of the community, and also welcomed efforts to achieve a “comprehensive, just and lasting peace” in Ukraine. The G20 meeting is taking place in New Delhi on September 9-10. Russia is represented at the summit by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

The representative of the Russian Federation in the G20, Svetlana Lukash, later told reporters that the summit in New Delhi was one of the most difficult in the entire history of the group, but the collective position of the BRICS countries worked. According to her, this is due not only to disagreements on the Ukrainian topic, but also to differences in positions on all key issues – primarily on the topic of climate change and the transition to low-carbohydrate energy systems.

The declaration following the 2022 G20 summit in Bali said that the majority of G20 members “strongly condemned the war in Ukraine,” pointing to “the enormous human suffering it has caused and the aggravation of pressing problems in the global economy.” At the same time, the document noted that “other points of view and different assessments of the events in Ukraine were also expressed. As the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov noted then, the Russian delegation “made a lot of efforts to ensure that a balanced text was born.”