South Africa says shared goals outweigh differences as G20 ends

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00:00With the strike of the symbolic gavel, South Africa's President Sirorama Pozor on Sunday

00:05closed the first G20 summit to be held on the African continent.

00:09It broke with tradition by issuing a leader's declaration on the opening day of talks,

00:13despite fierce opposition from the United States, which has been critical of Pretoria's G20 agenda.

00:19Recognizing our interconnectedness as a global community of nations,

00:25we have called for an end to conflicts.

00:30And wars around the globe, and for a just and comprehensive and lasting peace.

00:36This summit has taken place at a crucial time,

00:42as calls around the world grow louder for progress on the imperatives of our time,

00:50to end poverty in all its forms and ramifications,

00:55to reduce inequality within and amongst countries,

01:01and to take urgent action to combat climate change.

01:07I now say that this gavel of this G20 summit formally closes this summit

01:20and now moves on to the next president of the G20, which is the United States,

01:30where we shall see each other again next year.

01:35The summit is therefore closed.

01:37The wooden gavel would normally have been handed over to the leader of the United States,

01:44which is the next country to hold the rotating presidency.

01:47But Washington boycotted the gathering

01:50because of President Donald Trump's widely discredited claim

01:53that South Africa is violently persecuting its white Afrikaner minority.

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