The current conflict in the Middle East between Iran and Israel is set to dominate the talks at the G20 Sherpas meeting in the North West.
South Africa will host the three-day G20 Sherpas meeting in Sun City, from Wednesday until Friday. The country’s sherpa and director general, Zane Dangor is set to chair third meeting of the sherpas. South Africa’s Presidency has placed an emphasis on solidarity, equality and sustainability.
An incredibly unprecedented time as the conflict intensifies in the Middle East between Israel and Iran.
Iran has retaliated to Israel after it attacked its nuclear and military facilities since June 13. Director of the Middle East Studies Forum, Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh, elaborated on the United States’ role in the conflict.
“I think what the United States has done is to really play according to the Israeli agenda of bringing about not just destruction of Iranian nuclear facilities, but implementing and instigating regime change. The ultimate objective of Netanyahu, in relation to Iran, has been regime change. He’s made it very clear that he doesn’t tolerate the Islamic regime in power in Iran. Sees it as an existential threat, and the United States is simply playing along with that.”
In the G2O, the sherpas are the leaders of each country, who take the discussions and agreements to the final summit. Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, has called on these powerful economies to lead in finding consensus in a fractured world.
“There is a lack of vision a lack of leadership a lack of the capacity of leaders to mobilize their peoples and to come together in order to be able to to address the enormous challenges we face. Climate, the problems of conflict and the dramatic inequalities that generates poverty and hunger in so many parts of the world.”
The G20 countries are also concerned following the Trump administration’s decision to impose sweeping tariffs with far reaching implications for the global economy. For now though, there’s a pause and this has created uncertainty. South Africa’s G20 Sherpa, Zane Dangor, elaborated more on this.
“We’re going to have to now look at a similar principled approach on what are the principles underpinning International legal frameworks around fair trade. How do we rescue the the global trading system, and this is coming through so we’ll probably have to look at what can we salvage. Emphasis on what holds us together and what holds us together the rules as they are now we know that they must be reformed.”
Meanwhile, the second G20 Foreign Ministers meeting will be held in New York, later this year on the margins of the UN General Assembly high level week.
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