The final document of the G20 summit in South Africa says the organisation will work towards the settlement of armed conflicts and lighten the burden of the developing nations in the world.The summit, the first G20 gathering on the African continent, convened on the first of two days with an ambitious agenda to make progress on solving some of the longstanding problems that have afflicted the world’s poorest nations despite a boycott by the United States.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listLeaders and top government officials from the richest and leading emerging economies came together at an exhibition centre near the famous Soweto township in South Africa, once home to iconic post-Apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, to try and find some consensus on the priorities set out by the host country.The summit declaration adopted said on Saturday that the organisation will work for a comprehensive and lasting peace in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Ukraine.The declaration placed pointed emphasis on the seriousness of climate change, in a snub to United States President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly cast aspersions and doubts on the scientific consensus that global warming is caused by human activitiesIt stressed that increasing large-scale disasters disproportionately affect people in vulnerable situations in ways that exacerbate poverty and inequality, adding that a high level of debt is one of the obstacles to inclusive growth in many developing economies.“We are c …
