South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says the declaration from this weekend’s Group of 20 (G20) summit reflects a “renewed commitment to multilateral cooperation” as the rotating presidency moves to the United States under the cloud of another diplomatic row.

Ramaphosa, host of the Johannesburg summit, pushed through the declaration addressing global challenges like the climate crisis despite objections from the US, which boycotted the event.

Addressing the summit’s closing ceremony on Sunday, the president said the declaration showed world leaders’ “shared goals outweigh our differences”.

He stressed that the G20 summit declaration is a commitment to concrete actions to improve people’s lives all over the world.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said the G20 summit an

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