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G20 Leaders’ Summit Opening Session | South Africa 2025

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South Africa's president opened the first G20 Leaders Summit on African soil, welcoming global leaders and outlining the 2025 presidency's themes of solidarity, equality, and sustainability to address shared global challenges. Key priorities include bolstering disaster resilience, ensuring debt sustainability for low-income countries, financing a just energy transition, and leveraging critical minerals for inclusive growth, alongside endorsements of reports on G20 evolution, African development, and global inequality. The summit declaration was adopted by consensus, reinforcing multilateralism's role in advancing UN sustainable development goals and fostering inclusive economic progress worldwide.