{"id":263356,"date":"2019-12-02T11:23:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T14:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=263356"},"modified":"2019-12-02T12:02:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T15:02:58","slug":"saudi-arabia-assumes-g20-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/saudi-arabia-assumes-g20-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia assumes G20 presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Saudi Arabia replaced Japan in the G20\u2019s yearlong rotating presidency on Sunday (1<sup>st<\/sup>). The leaders of the world\u2019s 19 biggest economies plus the European Union will descend on the Saudi capital, Riyadh, on November 21 and 22, 2020 for the <a href=\"https:\/\/g20.org\/en\/Pages\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">G20 Summit<\/a>. This will be the event\u2019s first-ever edition in an Arab country \u2013 Saudi Arabia is the only Arab country in the bloc. <em>Pictured above: Saudi crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman greets Japan\u2019s prime-minister Shinzo Abe during the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan last June<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Saudi king Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud was quoted in a statement as saying that \u201cthe Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is optimistic and seeks to build a vital environment for the G20 to come up with initiatives and outputs that fulfill the hopes of the peoples of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heir prince Mohammed Bin Salman said that \u201cthe Saudi G20 presidency is committed to continuing the work from Osaka and promoting multilateral consensus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bin Salman also said the Saudi G20 presidency is \u201ccommitted to continuing the work from Osaka and promoting multilateral consensus. Working with our G20 partners, we will strive to deliver concrete actions and realize opportunities to enable us to face the challenges of the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe kingdom will focus on three main aims: empowering people, safeguarding the planet, and shaping new frontiers,\u201d the statement read. In the lead-up to the Summit, Saudi Arabia will host over 100 events and conferences, including ministerial meetings and meetings of officials and civil society representatives.<\/p>\n<p>The G20 is an international economic cooperation forum that brings together leaders from developed and developing countries. G20 countries account for a roughly 80% of global economic output, two thirds of the world\u2019s population, and three quarters of international trade, according to the G20 website.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from Saudi Arabia, Japan and the European Union, the G20 comprises Brazil, South Africa, Germany, Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, South Korea, United States, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, United Kingdom, Russia and Turkey. The Summit is also attended by leaders from guest countries and delegates from international organizations such as the World Bank and the World Trade Organization (WTO).<\/p>\n<p><em>*With information from the Saudi Press Agency (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spa.gov.sa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SPA<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-263330\">The Yomiuri Shimbun\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bloc\u2019s Summit will take place in Riyadh, the Arab country\u2019s capital, in November 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":263330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[11910,11347,39014,7128,9595,12873],"class_list":{"0":"post-263356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-foreign-affairs","8":"tag-arabia-saudita-en","9":"tag-g20-en","10":"tag-g20-en-2","11":"tag-presidency","12":"tag-saudi-arabia-en","13":"tag-summit"},"wps_subtitle":"The bloc\u2019s Summit will take place in Riyadh, the Arab country\u2019s capital, in November 2020.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}