SINGAPORE: Singapore has been invited by Brazil to take part within the G20 Summit and conferences in 2024.
Brazil took over the G20 presidency from India on Dec 1 and can maintain subsequent yr’s summit in Rio de Janeiro from Nov 18 to 19.
“Singapore appreciates the invitation from Brazil, which displays our glorious relations and shut cooperation at multilateral fora,” stated the Ministry of Overseas Affairs (MFA) and the Ministry of Finance (MOF) in a joint press assertion on Saturday (Dec 2).
“We get pleasure from deepening collaboration in areas corresponding to commerce and funding, innovation, training, local weather change and sustainability.
“Singapore will proceed to actively contribute to the G20 course of, each in our nationwide capability and as Convenor of the World Governance Group (3G).”
The World Governance Group is an off-the-cuff group of 30 smaller and medium-sized members of the United Nations, established to advertise stronger linkages between the G20 and UN member nations.
Whereas Singapore is just not a G20 member, it has for over 10 years been invited to take part within the summit and its associated conferences.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong attended the G20 Summit hosted by India in September 2023 and in Bali in 2022.
Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has stated that his nation will deal with decreasing starvation and poverty, slowing local weather change and international governance reform when it heads the G20 group of the world’s largest economies.
“I hope we are able to tackle the problems that we have to cease operating away from and attempt to resolve,” Lula stated at a gathering with cupboard ministers in November to put out Brazil’s priorities for the G20.
Within the Singapore press assertion, MFA and MOF stated: “We look ahead to work constructively with the Brazilian presidency and different G20 members and visitors to understand Brazil’s priorities of constructing a simply world and a sustainable planet.
“These embrace points corresponding to selling social inclusion and preventing starvation, managing power transition and sustainable improvement, and reforming international governance.”
