2021 G20 Rome summit

Summit of the leaders of all G20 member nations in Rome, Italy.

2021 G20 Rome summit
2021 G20 summit attendees

Front row (L to R): US President Joe Biden, President of DRC Felix Tshisekedi (African Union President), French President Emmanuel Macron, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Bruneian Sultan Hasanal Bolkiah (ASEAN Chair), Indonesian President Joko Widodo, Italian PM Mario Draghi (Host), Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Faisal Al-Saud, Rwandan President Paul Kagame (NEPAD chair: New Partnership for African Development), South Korean President Moon Jae-in, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, Argentinian President Alberto Fernández, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

Middle Row (L to R): Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, President of the European Commission Ursula Von Der Leyen, UK PM Boris Johnson, Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez, Indian PM Shri Narendra Modi, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Dutch PM Mark Rutte, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, Australian PM Scott Morisson, President of the European Council Charles Michael, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor.

Last Row (L to R): FSB President Randall Quarles, WTO Head Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala from Nigeria, WHO DG Tedros Adhanom, World Bank Chairman David Malpass, ILO DG Guy Ryder, Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, Russian Finance Minister Siluanov, UN Sec-Gen Antonio Guterres, IMF President (Former World Bank President: Krystalina Georgieva from Bulgaria), FAO head Qu Dongyu, OECD Sec-Gen Mathias Cormann, President of the African Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat from Chad.
Host countryItaly Italy
Date30–31 October 2021
MottoPeople, Planet, and Prosperity
Venue(s)EUR Convention Center
CitiesRome (host)
ParticipantsG20 members
Invited guests:
Brunei
D.R. Congo
Netherlands
Rwanda
Singapore
Spain
Follows2020 G20 Riyadh summit
Precedes2022 G20 Bali summit
Websiteg20.org

The 2021 G20 Rome summit was the sixteenth meeting of the Group of Twenty (G20), which was held in Rome, the capital city of Italy, on 30–31 October 2021.[1]

Participating leaders

Invited guests

Absent leaders

Five leaders did not attend the G20 summit. Of them, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin participated via video link; Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who rarely leaves the country on foreign trips, sent his Secretary of Foreign Affairs Marcelo Ebrard on his behalf; and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa both skipped the summit due to elections being held in each respective nation.[2][3][4][5]

Outcomes

U.S. President Joe Biden and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen at the G20 Rome summit, 31 October 2021

The Biden administration and the European Union reached an agreement on 30 October to roll back the steel and aluminium tariff regime that had been imposed by the Trump administration in 2018. The agreement retained some protection for American steel and aluminum producers by adopting a tariff-rate quota regime. It also ended retaliatory tariffs on American goods the EU had imposed and cancelled a scheduled tariff increase by the EU.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ "G20 2021 Italy". 16 December 2020. Archived from the original on 27 February 2021. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  2. ^ "G20 Italy: Which world leaders will be in Rome". Wanted in Rome. 27 October 2021.
  3. ^ "G20: World leaders agree to historic corporate tax deal". BBC News. 30 October 2021.
  4. ^ Balmer, Crispian (19 October 2021). "Four G20 leaders not expected at Rome summit -diplomats". Reuters. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  5. ^ "Ramaphosa skips first face-to-face Covid-19 era G20 summit due to local government elections". www.iol.co.za. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  6. ^ Swanson, Ana; Rogers, Katie (30 October 2021). "U.S. Agrees to Roll Back European Steel and Aluminum Tariffs". The New York Times.

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