HAVANA: The G77+China, a group of developing and emerging countries representing 80 percent of the world’s population, kicked off a summit in Cuba Fri...
Handout picture released by the Argentine Presidency showing Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez delivering a speech during the G77+China Summit at the Convention Palace in Havana on September 15, 2023. AFPPIX: The G77+China, a group of developing and emerging countries representing 80 percent of the world’s population, kicked off a summit in Cuba Friday with a call to “change the rules of the game” of the global order.
Diaz-Canel said that developing countries were the main victims of a “multidimensional crisis” in the world today, from “abusive unequal trade” to global warming. The bloc was established by 77 countries of the global South in 1964 “to articulate and promote their collective economic interests and enhance their joint negotiating capacity,“ according to the group’s website.
The meeting should conclude Saturday with a statement underscoring “the right to development in an increasingly exclusive, unfair, unjust and plundering international order,“ the foreign minister of host Cuba, Bruno Rodriguez, told reporters on Wednesday.