NEW DELHI, September 10. /TASS/. The unified position of the Global South prevented the West from focusing the agenda of the G20 summit in New Delhi too much on Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
"Largely thanks to the consolidated position of the Global South on protecting its legitimate interests, Western attempts to focus the agenda on Ukraine to the detriment of discussing the pressing issues the developing world is facing failed," he told a news briefing following the summit.
According to Lavrov, as the G20 chair, India has for the first time in the history of the forum managed to consolidate representatives of the Global South. Apart from India, Russia’s BRICS allies, too, were particularly active, he said.
The G20 New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration mentions the Ukraine crisis only once "exclusively in the context of the need to resolve all ongoing conflicts globally" in a manner consistent with the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, Lavrov underscored.