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Foreign ministers and top diplomats of the Group of 20, or G20, gathered in Bali, Indonesia, for a ministerial meeting on Friday with the theme of "Building a more peaceful, stable, and prosperous world together".

Countries are seemingly varied in terms of the level of COVID-19 pandemic recovery, resulting from, among other things, inequal distribution of vaccines, health devices and the lack of funds that poor countries are facing. These reflect the importance of addressing global health architecture issues to ensure there will be no gap left for the coronavirus to harm humans.

A walkout by officials from the United States, Britain and Canada over Russia's participation in a meeting of officials from the world's 20 biggest economies did not derail the meeting's focus on addressing headwinds confronting global growth, the body's chair said on Wednesday (April 20).

JAKARTA - Indonesia, which holds the rotating Group of 20 (G-20) presidency, said it will not close the grouping to Russia, amid pressure from some member countries to exclude Moscow because of the war in Ukraine.

"As the leaders gathered to discuss plans to protect against future pandemics, health experts and activists expressed concerns that the worlds richest nations were still not doing enough to help people in poor nations survive the current one."

The urgent task at the moment is that China and the United States must earnestly implement the consensus reached by the two heads of state, and make political preparations and provide necessary conditions for the next phase of exchanges, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said during his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

The "G20 Rome Leaders Declaration" pledges to use all available tools to address the consequences of the pandemic, sustain the recovery and remain vigilant to global challenges such as supply chain disruption.

ROME - Senior leaders of the powerful Group of 20 nations on Friday announced the creation of a new global body for coordinating government responses to the next international pandemic, but the initiative faced immediate criticism because it appears to lack resources.

Nations have to fully cooperate at historic moment for humankind, experts point out

The Group of 20 (G20) Leaders Summit slated for this weekend will broadly focus on climate change, health such as the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines and ways to improve pandemic preparedness, and the post-pandemic global economic recovery.

Indonesia is determined to prove to the world its "ability to keep Covid-19 pandemic under control" as it prepares to assume, for the first time, the Group of 20 (G-20) presidency from December and to host the G-20 summit next year.

Guterres urged all G20 and other leaders to commit to net-zero by mid-century, present more ambitious 2030 national climate plans and deliver on concrete policies and actions aligned with a net-zero future.