G20 Foreign Ministers Meeting kicks off in New Delhi

WORLD, March. 02 (YPA) – The meeting of foreign ministers of the Group of Twenty countries began in the Indian capital, New Delhi, on Thursday morning.

The G20 ministers’ meeting kicked off today with a minute’s silence for the victims of the devastating earthquakes that hit areas in Turkey and Syria last month.

The Ukraine crisis and its impact on the global situation are expected to be one of the most important topics to be discussed at the ministerial meeting.

Earlier, Reuters quoted an unnamed EU official as saying that the EU would not support the final communiqué of the G20 ministerial meeting if it did not include a “condemnation of the war” in Ukraine.

“We will not support the G20 statement, which does not condemn the war,” the EU official said.

The EU urged India to work at the event to achieve a “common understanding” to stop the conflict in Ukraine.

Citing sources familiar with the situation, Bloomberg reported that India is making efforts to clear the disagreement and contradiction over defining the conflict in Ukraine ahead of the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting, which begins on March 1.

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