The forum's second meeting of Foreign Ministers will take place on September 25th, at the United Nations ECOSOC in New York. It is the first time in history that a G20 meeting takes place at the UN, open to the participation of the 193 Member States.
For the first time, a meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the forum of the world's largest economies will take place at the United Nations. On September 25th, G20 Brasil will hold the second meeting of the group's Foreign Ministers in the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) room, located in the UN headquarters in New York. The meeting will take place alongside the 79th United Nations General Assembly
The meeting will be open to the Organization's 193 member states and will focus on debates on the reform of global governance, one of the priorities of Brasil's G20 Presidency. The country leads the discussions on the adoption of a "Call to Action on Global Governance Reform," committing to strengthening the multilateral system and reforming and modernizing the main international organizations.
In addition, the G20 representatives will discuss global measures to tackle hunger and poverty and promote sustainable development and a just energy transition, an agenda summarized in the motto "Building a just world and a sustainable planet," focusing on advancing the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
"This is the first meeting of the G20 at the UN, a milestone in the group's history that demonstrates the effort of the Brazilian presidency to make discussions more inclusive and comprehensive, bringing them to the center of the debate on the international agenda," says a note released by the forum's presidency.
Notable participants
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will take part in the opening session of the meeting, along with UN Secretary-General António Guterres; South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, who will assume the presidency of the G20 in December; and the President of the General Assembly, Philémon Yang. Minister Mauro Vieira will lead the proceedings after the opening session, with the participation of the other G20 Foreign Ministers and UN member countries.
The first meeting of the group's Foreign Ministers took place in Rio de Janeiro on February 21 and 22, to discuss the G20's role in the face of current geopolitical tensions.
