![]() In addition to funding more than half of the World Food Program’s entire budget, we’ve contributed $13.5 billion to fight hunger over the last year alone, and we’ve committed more than $11 billion over the next five years to boost countries’ resilience and nutrition.Īfrican countries in particular have told us time and again that, more than aid, what they want is help building the sustainable capacity to feed their own people, and we’re teaming up to do just that. The United States is leading on both fronts. We’ve got to do two things at once – get food to the hungry now, but also help countries build up their agricultural productivity and resilience so that they’re less vulnerable to future shocks. These challenges include the unprecedented food security crisis around the world. So even as we stand with Ukraine while it defends itself, as any nation would do in that position, we’re also determined to keep working with other countries to deliver solutions to these shared challenges.Īnd that is exactly what we did today at the G20. Like most countries, we want to focus on the fundamental challenges affecting the daily lives of our people. This includes defending all of the purposes and principles enshrined in the charter of the United Nations and adhering to international humanitarian law,” end quote.Įvery G20 member – and virtually every country, period – continues to bear the cost of Russia’s war of aggression, a war that President Putin could end tomorrow, if he chose to do so. Eighteen members of the G20 also reaffirmed that it is – and I quote – “essential to uphold international law and the multilateral system. Russia and China were the only two countries that made clear that they would not sign on to that text. The chair’s statement by India today reaffirmed the declaration issued by the G20 leaders last year in Bali, which – and I quote – “strongly condemned the war in Ukraine and stressed that it is causing immense human suffering and exacerbating existing fragilities in the global economy,” end quote. Not a single G20 member voted with Russia to oppose that resolution. We met here in Delhi roughly one year after President Putin launched his war of aggression on Ukraine, and one week after 141 countries voted in the United Nations General Assembly for a resolution that expressed the support for a comprehensive, just, and lasting peace, in accordance with the United Nations charter and its principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity and deplores the human rights and humanitarian consequences of Russia’s aggression. And let me begin by thanking our host, India, for setting out an ambitious agenda for this meeting, and for its presidency of the G20. We came together to focus on solving some of the most consequential problems affecting people of our nations and the world. We just finished a marathon day at the G20. I hope I’m not disrupting people’s dinner plans. SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good evening, everyone, and apologies for doing this so late. Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs.Bureau of International Organization Affairs.Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs.Office of Management Strategy and Solutions.Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations.Bureau of Information Resource Management.Bureau of the Comptroller and Global Financial Services.Office of the Science and Technology Adviser.Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs.Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment.Economic Growth, Energy, and Environment.Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.Office of the Special Envoy To Monitor and Combat Antisemitism.Office of International Religious Freedom.Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration.Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations.Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights.Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights.Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation.Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance.Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security.Arms Control and International Security.Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization.Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources.Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy.Security Coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority Special Representative for Syria Engagement.Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs.Special Presidential Coordinator for the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment Global AIDS Coordinator and Global Health Diplomacy Office of the Special Envoy for Critical and Emerging Technology.
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