The heads of state and government participating in the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro posed again this Tuesday for a group photo, this time with Joe Biden, Giorgia Meloni and Justin Trudeau, who arrived late for Monday’s photo. , but without Javier Milei.
If the Prime Minister of Italy, her Canadian counterpart, or the President of the United States do not appear in the photograph from the day before, in this Tuesday’s photograph the main absentees were Milei and the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, who represented in Rio to the head of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin.
A day after posing for a photo commemorating the launch of the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty with the Pao de Açucar hill and Guanabara Bay in the background, the leaders did it again, but now with a huge panel with an aerial image of Rio de Janeiro in the background and for the traditional “family photo” of the G20 summit.
In the new photograph Meloni, Biden and Trudeau appear in the front row, as well as the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who appears surrounded by the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, and the President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa.
The three make up the so-called troika of the G20, since India chaired the forum of the world’s largest economies in 2023, Brazil succeeded it in 2024 and South Africa will take over on December 1.
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G20 leaders take family photo again
In the new photograph, the big absentee was Milei, who approved the final declaration of the Rio summit so as not to break the consensus of the other heads of state but clarified that he diverged on several issues.
According to Argentine diplomatic sources, the president held a long day of bilateral meetings in Rio and not all of them at the headquarters of the Museum of Modern Art (MAM), where the summit was held.
The Argentine president met in the morning with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, and had scheduled meetings starting at noon with the director of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, and with the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi.
The G20 is made up of Germany, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, South Korea, the United States, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Russia, South Africa and Turkey, as well as the European Union and the African Union.
With information from EFE.
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