RIO DE JANEIRO, November 19. /TASS/. The countries of the collective West have failed to bring the issue of Ukraine to the forefront of the agenda of the G20 summit in Brazil, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

"Of course, the West has tried to bring the issue of Ukraine to the forefront. It failed, no one from the countries of the world majority, the Global South, supported it," the top diplomat said at a press conference after his participation in the summit.

According to the foreign minister, Russia and its partners from developing countries insisted that the text [of the G20 summit's final declaration] be dedicated to "all conflicts, the need to resolve each and every conflict that is taking place on the planet today, first of all in the Middle East." "There is a clause on Ukraine [in the document], which we agreed with, because the most important part of it is the call for a just and rational dialogue on peace on realistic foundations," Lavrov emphasized.

The G20 summit is taking place in Rio de Janeiro on November 18-19.