G20 Leaders' Summit: Lamola hails renewed commitment to multilateral cooperation

The highly anticipated gathering of the heads of state from the G20 bloc and other high-level delegates convened on Saturday and Sunday.

The close of the summit on Sunday officially ended South Africa’s G20 Presidency.

Only the United States (US), the incoming hosts, did not attend the final talks at Nasrec Expo Centre, in the South of Joburg.

While there was some skepticism that South Africa would find sufficient consensus, a 30-page leaders’ declaration was finalised on the first day of the gathering.

Speaking on the sidelines of the gathering on Sunday, the Minister of International Relations, Ronald Lamola, hailed the global endorsement as a renewed commitment to multilateral cooperation.

“The global south is providing leadership that has never been seen before. That these institutions that have been created after the second world war have served us well. We need to maintain them. But obviously there is a need for reform of some of them like the United Nations Security Council and other platforms. There is a need for reform to ensure that there's representativity of the global south.”

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