🌐 G20 Rio de Janeiro Leaders’ Declaration

1. We, the Leaders of the G20, met in Rio de Janeiro on 18-19 November 2024 to address major global challenges and crises and promote strong, sustainable, balanced, and inclusive growth. We gather in the birthplace of the Sustainable Development Agenda to reaffirm our commitment to building a just world and a sustainable planet, while leaving no one behind <...>

4. We recognize that inequality within and among countries is at the root of most global challenges that we face and is aggravated by them.

8. While expressing our deep concern about the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip and the escalation in Lebanon, we emphasize the urgent need to expand the flow of humanitarian assistance and to reinforce the protection of civilians and demand the lifting of all barriers to the provision of humanitarian assistance at scale. <...>

9. <...> We welcome all relevant and constructive initiatives that support a comprehensive, just, and durable peace [regarding Ukraine], upholding all the Purposes and Principles of the UN Charter for the promotion of peaceful, friendly, and good neighborly relations among nations. <...>

11. We condemn terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. <...>

15. The world produces more than enough food to eradicate hunger. Collectively, we do not lack knowledge nor resources to fight poverty and defeat hunger. What we need is political will to create the conditions to expand access to food. In light of this, we have launched the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty and welcome its innovative approach to mobilizing finance and knowledge sharing to support the implementation of country-led, country-owned, large-scale and evidence-based programs aiming at reducing hunger and poverty worldwide. <...>

35. We emphasize the role of sustainable development in its three dimensions – economic, social, and environmental – as a guiding principle for cooperation for people, planet and prosperity, with the ultimate goal of overcoming our collective challenges. We reaffirm our respective commitments to scale up urgent action to address the crises and challenges posed by climate change, biodiversity loss, desertification, ocean and land degradation, drought and pollution. <...>

62. The challenges the global community faces today can only be addressed through multilateral solutions for a better tomorrow and the strengthening of global governance for both present and future generations. <...>

64. We pledge to reform the Security Council through a transformative reform that aligns it with the realities and demands of the 21st century, makes it more representative, inclusive, efficient, effective, democratic and accountable, and more transparent to the whole of the UN membership, allowing for better responsibility sharing among all its members, while improving the effectiveness and transparency of its working methods. We call for an enlarged Security Council composition that improves the representation of the underrepresented and unrepresented regions and groups, such as Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America and the Caribbean. <...>

85. We remain resolute in our commitment to fighting hunger, poverty, and inequality, promoting sustainable development in its economic, social, and environmental dimensions, and reforming global governance. We welcome Saudi Arabia’s ambition to advance its turn for hosting the G20 Presidency in the next cycle. We thank Brazil for its leadership this year and look forward to working together in 2025 under South Africa’s Presidency and meeting again in the United States in 2026.

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🗓 On November 21, Ambassador of Russia to ASEAN Mr. Evgeny Zagaynov 🇷🇺 and the Head of Office #UNOCHA Indonesia and ASEAN Liaison Office Ms. Thandie Mwape exchanged views on cooperation with the countries of the region in the sphere of disaster management.

🇷🇺🇵🇭 Russia-Philippines Political Consultations

26 November 2024

🔹 On November 26, 2024, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Andrey Rudenko held political consultations with Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Philippines Maria-Theresa Lazaro in Manila.

🔹 A thorough exchange of views took place on topical issues of the bilateral, regional, and global agenda. Both sides discussed the state and perspectives of development of the Russian-Philippine political dialogue, cooperation in trade, economic and humanitarian spheres. Special attention was paid to interaction within the UN and multilateral venues of the Asia-Pacific region, including within the format of the Russia-ASEAN Dialogue.

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📰 Article by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Y.Rudenko in the Philippine newspaper “Business Mirror” (25 November 2024)

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Key points:

💬 Since the establishment of diplomatic ties in 1976, Russian-Philippine friendship has gone through a test of endurance, including changes in the domestic and international political and economic spheres following the collapse of the USSR.

💬 Amid the ongoing global transformation associated with the changing balance of power in the international arena, primarily due to the increasing role of the Global South and Eastern countries, the Philippines remains an important and promising partner of Russia in the Asia-Pacific region.

💬 We therefore appreciate the constructive attitude of the present administration, headed by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, which demonstrates the continuity of the policy of maintaining friendly relations with our country.

💬 Recent years have seen an active development of interregional contacts. The city of Cebu maintains twinning relations with Vladimir, in 2022 an agreement on cooperation with Vladivostok was signed. In 2024 the province of Cebu concluded an agreement on cooperation in trade and economy, science and technology, and the humanitarian area with St. Petersburg. Moscow has cooperation programs in place with Manila and Cebu.

💬 Russia opposes the militarization of the region and the "creeping expansion" of NATO into Southeast Asia. Such narrow-bloc organizations as the Indo-Pacific Four (Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand), the AUKUS military alliance with a nuclear component (the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia) are fully involved in this scenario. We note attempts to pull other ASEAN countries into similar narrow-bloc entities, with the aim of forming new "trios" and "quartets".

💬 Russian-Philippine cooperation has great potential for further successful development and translation into mutually beneficial projects.