Africa's first G20 summit adopts declaration as EU leaders respond to US peace plan for Ukraine

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Africa's first G20 summit adopts declaration as EU leaders respond to US peace plan for Ukraine  The summit, the first to be held in Africa, opened on Saturday with EU leaders and their counterparts from leading and emerging economies coming together as Washington's proposed peace plan for Ukraine loomed large on the sidelines.   READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/11/22/africas-first-g20-summit-adopts-declaration-as-eu-leaders-respond-to-us-peace-plan-for-ukr  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00The G20 summit in South Africa opened on Saturday with leaders adopting a declaration

00:06addressing the climate crisis and other global challenges, after it was drafted without U.S.

00:12input. The declaration, using language to which Washington opposed, can't be renegotiated,

00:19as spokesperson for South Africa's president Cyril Moposa told reporters.

00:24Leaders and top government officials from leading and emerging economies came together

00:29to try to find some consensus on the priorities in the two-day summit.

00:33But the summit also comes as European leaders try to hash out alternatives to a U.S. plan

00:40to halt Russia's war in Ukraine.

00:43The 28-point blueprint to end the Kremlin's aggression sparked alarm in Kyiv,

00:48with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky saying his country could face a stark choice

00:54between standing up for its sovereign rights and preserving U.S. support.

00:59While the White House is boycotting the G20 talks, EU leaders say their talks on the proposed

01:05peace plan for Ukraine will continue next week with 27 leaders of the bloc

01:10in the margins of the EU-AU summit in Luanda.

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