According to what he commented on the social network X, his nation does not belong to that organization of the most powerful countries on earth, not because it cannot, but because it has allowed its productive economy to decline due to bloodthirsty and authoritarian mirages, and due to a hereditary and predatory ruling elite.

“With the progressivism that seeks peace, a reduction in poverty and inequality and incentives to know, produce and work, Colombia will enter the G20 club,” he wrote.

Regarding the president’s participation in the G20 forum, Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo said that Petro will have meetings focused on issues of interest, including one with officials from the Colombian state oil company, Ecopetrol, in Brazil; and he will also receive the president of the G20, the Minister of Finance of the South American giant, Fernando Haddad.

“We have a strategic alliance with Brazil, we are looking at the diversification of our foreign policy and our international relations and Brazil is key in the new insertion of Colombia in the world,” he declared.

He confirmed that bilateral meetings with dignitaries from France, the United States and South Africa are being prepared for the next two days.

He stressed at this point that Colombia currently attaches great importance to tripartite work with Mexico and Brazil.

The president, he assured, will speak about social inclusion, fair energy transition, and the need to reform the governance of the United Nations and financial institutions.

According to him, his country defends the importance of applying alternatives to access fresh resources to respond to climate emergencies and that requires a profound transformation of credit institutions.

“One of them has to do with the group of experts that we created with France, Kenya and Germany and from which a report has already been issued on the need to transform into credits, that is, to apply a debt swap for nature and for climate action,” he explained.

Another of the issues is related to climate special drawing rights, where there is an offer of resources from countries in the global north.

He said that the United States has a quota of 600 million dollars that it did not use and that could be transferred to countries like Colombia to respond to the climate emergency and that Petro will also speak about this issue.

Likewise, he added, he will present his ideas on the democracy of the global system and will defend the idea that each State must represent a valid vote “because it cannot be that rich countries or those that have weapons decide what is going to happen in the world.”

Murillo said that Petro will refer to the crisis in the global governance system, where the UN is increasingly inefficient in enforcing agreements.

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