Guterres pays ‘tribute’ to India’s G20 leadership

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United Nations, Sep 14: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has paid “tribute” to India’s presidency of the G20 for building consensus at the Leaders’ Summit in New Delhi last week and raising the voice of the Global South. “I should pay tribute to the Indian presidency. The Indian presidency did its best in order to have the South’s voice represented and did its best to put development agenda in the centre of the discussions of the G20,” he said on Wednesday.
“Then, of course, the conclusions are what they are. It depends on what countries are ready to accept. But I think that effort needs to be underlined.”
The G20 consensus document did not adopt two key proposals Guterres has been championing – action to keep global warming to 1.5 degree Celsius and cut out fossil fuel, and an annual fund of at least $500 billion for reaching the UN’s multi-faceted Sustainable Development Goals.
But the UN chief appeared to accept that it was the cost of consensus.
As for building consensus in a deeply divided forum, he said: “The simple fact of having a consensus means that there was a compromise and compromise is something that is essential in present dates.”
In his opening remarks at the news conference ahead of the high-level General Assembly session, Guterres said: “Effective leadership is compromise.”
He spoke of the emerging multipolar world and said that while “multipolarity can be a factor of equilibrium”, he said that “it can also lead to escalating tensions, fragmentation and worse”.
Therefore, he said, “it is time for compromise for a better tomorrow. Politics is compromise. Diplomacy is compromise”.
“Today’s multilateral institutions that were created after the Second World War reflect the power and economic dynamics of that time, and so, they need reform,” he said. (IANS)

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