(20 Feb 2025)
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Johannesburg, South Africa – 20 February 2025
1. Various of South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa (red tie), and South African Foreign Minister, Ronald Lamola, arriving at G20 Foreign Ministers’ meeting
2. Wide of Lamola addressing meeting
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Cyril Ramaphosa, South African President: ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
"Geopolitical tensions and rising intolerance, conflict and war, climate change, pandemics and energy and food insecurity do threaten an already fragile global coexistence. These challenges are interconnected. They require responses that are inclusive and responses that should be well coordinated."
4. Wide Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi (right), and French Foreign Minister, Jean-Noël Barrot (left)
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Cyril Ramaphosa, South African President: ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
"The conflicts between Russia and Ukraine, conflict that’s raging in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in the Sudan, in the Sahel, and in Gaza, continue to exact heavy human toll and heighten global insecurity. South Africa welcomes the ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and Hamas as a crucial first step towards ending the severe humanitarian crisis faced by the Palestinian people in Gaza."
6. Mid of U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission to South Africa Dana Brown
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Cyril Ramaphosa, South African President: ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
"The G20 needs to play a leading role in the global agenda for people, climate and prosperity. As we strive towards a common purpose, I think it is important that we should remember that cooperation is our greatest strength. Let us seek to find common ground through constructive engagement. Through the G20 we should be able to set the coordinates of a new cause for human progress."
8. Various of delegates listening to Ramaphosa’s speech
STORYLINE:
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday told a gathering of G20 foreign ministers in Johannesburg that the meeting was an opportunity for "serious dialogue" against a backdrop of global tensions and climate change.
Foreign ministers including Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, and China’s Foreign minister, Wang Yi, attended the gathering Thursday, though U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio did not amid diplomatic tensions between South Africa and the U.S.
The U.S. was instead represented by acting ambassador to South Africa Dana Brown.
Representatives from the European Union, the United Nations and the African Union were also in attendance.
"The G20 needs to play a leading role in the global agenda for people, climate and prosperity," Ramaphosa said as he addressed ministers.
"As we strive towards a common purpose, I think it is important that we should remember that cooperation is our greatest strength. Let us seek to find common ground through constructive engagement."
The G20 is supposed to bring developed and developing countries together to create a foundation for global economic stability and foster cooperation.
But the grouping often struggles to reach any meaningful consensus on issues because of the disparate interests of the U.S., Europe, Russia and China
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