Held
at Riyadh (First Virtual Summit – through video conferencing)
Theme:
“Realizing Opportunities of the 21st Century for All”
Special
Invitees: Spain, Jordan, Singapore and Switzerland
According
to a release, the G20 countries committed to inject more than $5 trillion into
the global economy, and contribute to the World Health Organisation (WHO) led
COVID-19 solidarity response fund. Indian Prime Minister said that, the world
needs to “redefine” its conversations on globalisation to include social and
humanitarian issues like terrorism, climate change and pandemics along with
financial and economic discussions.
Many
countries have been critical of WHO’s failure to alert the world quickly enough
of the potential threat from the pandemic, even after it had been informed of
its spread in Wuhan by China on December 31 last year. Others, most notably the
United States, have been particularly critical of China for not having been
transparent and shared information about the pandemic, and have even called for
the virus to be named the “Chinese virus” or the “Wuhan virus,” a move China
has opposed strongly.
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