G20 foreign ministers in Atlanta fail to issue joint communique
The forum closed with a chairman’s statement after disagreements over Ukraine, Iran and U.S. tariffs prevented a common line.
The G20 foreign ministers meeting in Atlanta, the United States, ended Saturday (31/10) without a joint communique. The two-day forum closed with only a chairman’s statement after participants failed to align on global security issues. The split was driven mainly by the Russia-Ukraine war, then widened by tensions between the United States and Iran and Washington’s tariff policy. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio acknowledged there was no solution acceptable to all sides, even as some countries continued to cooperate on supply chains and critical minerals. On the sidelines, Rubio also met counterparts from Australia, India and Japan to discuss the security of shipping routes, including the Strait of Hormuz, the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, the Red Sea, the Black Sea and the South China Sea. From the outset, tensions were visible when a group photo was canceled after European diplomats objected to the presence of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.