The Argentine ambassador to the United States, Jorge Argüello, highlighted on Monday the confluence of Argentina’s interests with the agenda proposed by Indonesia for the G20, within the framework of the presidency that the Asian country holds in the bloc this year.
Argüello underscored the change in the G20 agenda that Indonesia and the upcoming presidencies of India and Brazil could bring about.
“Until now, the G20 agenda was preferably more focused on the problems of the developed world than on the specific challenges that arise in emerging economies and in developing countries despite the indisputable multipolarity,” the diplomat remarked at the virtual conference “Challenges in times of geoeconomic reconfiguration” organized by the National University of Tres de Febrero (Untref).
The ambassador highlighted the “coincidence” of the pro-tempore assumption of Indonesia to the presidency of the G20 with the 65th anniversary of bilateral relations between the two countries and the “constant support” of the Asian country in the resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly regarding the issue of the Malvinas Islands.
“It is essential for Indonesia and Argentina to fight for the interests of all middle-income countries around the world, to be able to bring changes to the concept of development and generate fair measures to support these countries”
In the same way, the Indonesian ambassador to Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, Niniek Kun Nayatie underscored “the opportunity for Indonesia and Argentina as middle-income countries in the G20 to reshape the global economic architecture and higher growth.”
“It is essential for Indonesia and Argentina to fight for the interests of all middle-income countries around the world, to be able to bring changes to the concept of development and generate fair measures to support these countries,” added Nayatie.
For his part, Argüello explained that while in 1999, when the bloc was created, the G7 economies represented 55% of the Gross World Product and the emerging ones, 27%, by 2024, a ratio of 36% and 44%, respectively, is projected.
For his part, the also sherpa in the G20 highlighted the strengthening of the link between the Asia-Pacific region and Latin America during the last decade based on “commercial complementarities and the growing demand of Asian economies for primary products and their manufactures. ”.
Regarding the pro-tempore presidency held by Indonesia in the G20 during the current year, Arguello stressed the proposed agenda “oriented towards a resilient, sustainable, stable and inclusive global economic recovery.”
“Indonesia announced that its presidency will reflect the perspective of developing countries to create a shared and fairer world order, to strengthen global solidarity in mitigating the impacts of climate change and promoting sustainable development, and that is also our goal. national objective”, highlighted the ambassador.
“Indonesia announced that its presidency will reflect the perspective of developing countries to create a shared and fairer world order, to strengthen global solidarity in mitigating the impacts of climate change and promoting sustainable development”
After that, he asserted that “this type of initiative becomes more important in an international context where the European conflict turns global food and energy security into a question mark with the consequent rises in prices and inflation that threaten the recovery of emerging regions.”
One of the points on which Argüello agreed is the discussion of the “global health architecture” since “both regions have been a clear example of how inequity in the global distribution of vaccines has harmed the most vulnerable populations, since there are still millions of people left unvaccinated globally.”
For its part, regarding the energy transitionanother of the priorities of the Jakarta presidency, Arguello insisted that “financing to meet climate commitments” should be a “point of special consideration.”
