Sir Keir Starmer remarks during opening session of G20 Summit

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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks during the opening session of the G20 Summit in Johannesburg on Saturday.He lauded the first summit on African soil and remarked this is "a moment of mounting competition and crises around the world," urging world leaders to unite on various fronts.

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00:00This is a moment of mounting competition and crises around the world, and that I think

00:16has been mentioned by pretty well every contribution so far. Fragility in the Middle East, rising

00:24threats of authoritarianism and fragmentation, as well as Russia's ongoing unjustified war

00:31in Ukraine. The shockwaves of that invasion are still reverberating through global markets

00:38today. It has hit growth, driven up food and energy prices, and deepened persistent imbalances

00:46and instability across the world. With all that in mind and echoing what others have said,

00:54the role of the G20 is critical at this moment. Growth must be a mission for us all to embrace,

01:04as the means to improve lives, to fund public services, and to keep our people secure.

01:11The G20 has worked together before to fix fundamental problems in the global economy. We need to

01:19find ways to play a constructive role again today in the face of the world challenges.

01:25And I'd like to see us come together around a five-point plan for growth that leaves no-one

01:32behind.

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