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United States Advances Shared Interests with G20 World Leaders and Delivers for the American People

FACT SHEET: United States Advances Shared Interests with G20 World Leaders and Delivers for the American People
OCTOBER 31, 2021


For the first time ever, G20 Leaders agree to establish a historic Global Minimum Corporate Tax

At the G20 Summit in Rome, President Biden coordinated with fellow Leaders on shared interests, including the climate crisis, global health and pandemic preparedness, and the global economic recovery, using the power of diplomacy to address key issues that matter to the American people. Together with the European Union, we achieved a major breakthrough arrangement to negotiate the world’s first carbon-based sectoral arrangement on steel and aluminum, protecting and creating American jobs and lowering costs for families while fighting the climate crisis.

Throughout the G20 President Biden stressed the need for balanced, well-supplied, and competitive global energy markets to underpin an inclusive economic recovery that supports working families at home and abroad. Leaders committed to guaranteeing just and orderly energy transitions of our energy systems that ensure affordability, including for the most vulnerable households and businesses as we recover from the global pandemic. They expressed their intent to explore among other things, paths to enhanced energy security and markets stability.

President Biden met with Leaders from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom to discuss the risks posed to international security by Iran’s escalating nuclear program, and hosted a supply chain summit with 14 countries and the European Union to discuss how we collectively tackle the immediate supply chain challenges from this unprecedented economic recovery and build long-term supply chain reliance for the future. President Biden also held bilateral meetings on the margins of the G20 with Chancellor Angela Merkel and Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany, President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore.

After the Summit, the G20 Leaders came to a consensus across a host of issues, including:

Historic Global Minimum Tax: G20 Leaders representing 80% of the world’s gross domestic product (GDP) endorsed the establishment of a historic Global Minimum Tax (GMT) to end the race to the bottom, ensure giant corporations pay their fair share no matter where they are located, help prevent the offshoring of good American jobs, and invest in our people at home. One recent independent study found that this agreement to establish a 15% GMT—up from 0% today—would lead to at least $60 billion in revenue per year in the United States alone. Today’s announcement is a testament to American diplomacy and leadership.

COVID-19 Pandemic and Health Security: The Leaders came together in support of the COVID-19 response and global vaccination targets. The Leaders also decide to take next steps toward the design and establishment of an inclusive, sustained, and adequate financing facility to improve global health security and bolster pandemic preparedness around the world. The Leaders agreed to establish a G20 Finance and Health Task Force to enhance global cooperation to detect and response to emerging health threats. The G20 Leaders also came out in support of a global ambition to channel $100 billion worth of reallocation of special drawing rights (SDRs) to help the world’s most vulnerable countries and restructuring debts for low-income countries on a case by case basis – a major step towards global economic recovery. The Leaders also supported efforts to shorten the cycle for the development of safe and effective vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics from 300 to 100 days (following the identification of such threats) and work to make them equitably and widely available. This work follows calls for more urgent action and continued focus from the United States following the President’s Global COVID-19 Summit.

Climate Change: G20 Leaders came out in support of ending public finance for new unabated coal power generation abroad, to contribute to keeping a 1.5 degrees Celsius limit on global temperature rise with reach. They stressed the importance of fully meeting, as soon as possible, the developed country collective goal of mobilizing $100B per year to help developing countries in the face of climate change. After a four-year absence of U.S. federal leadership, President Biden’s commitment to climate finance, alongside strong new pledges from other donors, are fundamental to achieving this goal no later than 2023. This is a decisive decade for climate action and the President will continue to rally the world to tackle the climate crisis together.

Anticorruption and Ransomware: The Leaders also lifted up the global fight against corruption as a shared priority, which includes transparency for beneficial ownership and real estate, and they committed to fight any new and sophisticated forms of corruption. The Leaders recognized the need for international cooperation to counter ransomware and other forms of cybercrime. Just this month, the Biden Administrationheld a meeting with more than 30 countries to accelerate cooperation to counter ransomware, including to improve collective resilience, address the misuse of virtual currency to launder ransom payments, and investigate and prosecute cyber criminals. This work builds on U.S. international efforts to promote cybersecurity, including our commitment to work with G7 partners to address criminal ransomware networks, our support for updating NATO cyber policy for the first time in seven years, and our continuing efforts to work with allies and partners to attribute malicious cyber activity, as evidenced by the broad international support we garnered in our attributions for SolarWinds and Hafnium malicious cyber activity.

Leaders also committed to achieving food security and adequate nutrition, particularly in famine-stricken parts of the world where armed conflicts have exacerbated these problems—such as Ethiopia. Leaders will continue to enhance concrete measures to advance gender equality in national policies. President Biden issued the first-ever national gender strategy to advance the full participation of all people – including women and girls – in the United States and around the world.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Remarks by President Biden in Press Conference

Remarks by President Biden in Press Conference
OCTOBER 31, 2021

La Nuvola
Rome, Italy

(October 31, 2021)

8:24 P.M. CET

THE PRESIDENT: Please, sit down. I apologize for keeping you waiting. We were playing with elevators. (Laughs.) Long story.

Anyway, good evening. I believe we’ve had a series of very productive meetings in the past few days, and I’m looking forward to continuing to make progress on critical global issues that we — as we head off to Glasgow.

Because of what we’ve seen again here in Rome, what I think is the power of America showing up and working with our allies and partners to make progress on issues that matter to all of us. And there’s really no substitute for face-to-face discussions and negotiations among the leaders when it comes to building an understanding and cooperation.

I found in all of my meetings here, both the larger sessions and the one-on-one sessions — and I had many of those — a real eagerness among our partners and allies for American leadership to help bring the world together and solve some of these big problems.

I found my one-on-one engagements with so many of the leaders, and the importance of strong, personal relationships never feels — it never ceases to amaze me when it’s — you’re looking at someone straight in the eye when you’re trying to get something done. They know me; I know them. We can get things done together.

And so, I want to thank the Italian people, by the way, for the G20, for their hospitality, and congratulate Prime Minister Draghi. He did one heck of a job leading the G20 through a difficult year marked by great global challenges, critically among them: ending the pandemic; driving a broad-based, sustainable global economic recovery; and tackling the climate crisis. I believe we made tangible progress on each of these issues, in part because of the commitment that the United States has brought to the table.

For example, I’m proud that the G20 endorsed the global minimum tax. This is something the United States has been driving for for over a year, building momentum up to this achievement. And this is an incredible win for all our countries.

Instead of nations competing against one another to attract investments by bottoming out corporate tax rates, this set a minimum floor of 15 percent to ensure that giant corporations begin to pay their fair share, no matter where they’re headquartered, instead of hiding — hiding profits overseas.

We also agreed to establish a fund in the future that — for — countries can draw on to help prevent, if necessary, and respond to the next pandemic, prepared for the next time around.

Yesterday, together with Prime Minister Johnson and Merkel and Macron — President Macron, we came together to reiterate our shared belief that diplomacy — diplomacy is the best way to prevent Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon, and we discussed how best to encourage Iran to resume serious, good-faith negotiations.

I also wanted to note that, even as I’ve been here in Rome, as you might guess — and some of you, I suspect, do the same thing — American reporters — I’ve been focused on the vital issues that affect American workers and families at home.

I just finished meeting with a broad coalition of partners on how to address the immediate supply chain backlogs and dealing that — that the world has been dealing with and facing, and we’re facing back at home, and how to make sure we have access to all the products we need — from shoes, to furniture, to electronics, to automobiles — to make sure that we talk about how better to secure ourself against these future shocks, whether a pandemic, climate change, or other disasters.

And the Build Back Better framework — which is, God willing, going to be voted on as early as — sometime this coming week — that I announced on Thursday includes, for the first time ever, sever- — several billion dollars to help strengthen the supply chains to make sure we have access to everything we need.

And it’s going to give workers and folks making all these products just a little bit of breathing room. The Build Back Better will also — is going to make it easier for them to afford everything from childcare while they are at work, for their kids; two years of free high-quality preschool.

And finally, today I was proud to announce, together with our close part- — EU partners, another critical win for both American workers and the climate agenda.

The United States and the European Union have agreed to negotiate the world’s first trade agreement based on how much carbon is in a product, as we negotiated the steel and aluminum tariffs that were in place.

We made agreement and, I might add, strong support of the U.S. steelworkers back home. And I want to thank them. I want to thank Tom Conway, who I spoke to today, president of the United Steelworkers, for his partnership in arriving at this deal.

The deal will immediately remove a point of significant tension with our friends in the European Union. And it rejects the false idea that we cannot grow an economy and support American workers while tackling the climate crisis at the same time.

We’re talking about a lot — a lot during the G20, the COP26. But we also know tackling the climate crisis has been a all-hands-on-deck effort. American workers are a critical part of the solution.

And now I’m happy to take some questions. And I’m told I should start with AP, Zeke Miller. Zeke, you have a question?

Q Thank you, Mr. President.

THE PRESIDENT: I didn’t recognize you with the maks [sic] on — mask on. I apologize.

Q Thank you, Mr. President. Here in Rome, you’ve tried to showcase that America is back. But back at home, your poll numbers have fallen. Your party’s nominee for governor of Virginia is facing a very tough — a tougher-than-expected race. Your party spent months trying to negotiate the centerpiece of your Democrat — of your domestic legislative agenda.

We’re one year now since your election. What — and you have done a lot in your year in office to try to turn the page on the last administration. But we’ve seen how presidents can turn the page very quickly from one to the other. So why should the world believe that when you say “America is back,” that really it’s here to stay?

THE PRESIDENT: Because of the way they reacted. You were here. They listened. Everyone sought me out. They wanted to know what our views were. And we helped lead what happened here.

It’s just very simple: You know, if you’re honest — you are honest; I didn’t mean to imply you weren’t — but that we were — we got significant support here. Significant support. We’re the most — the United States of America is the most critical part of this entire agenda, and — and we did it.

And, by the way, look, the polls are going to up and down and up and down. They were high early, then they got medium, then they went back up, and now they’re low.

Well, look, this is — look at every other president; the same thing has happened. But that’s not why I ran. I didn’t run to determine how well I’m going to do in the polls. I ran to make sure that I followed through on what I said I would do as President of the United States.

And I said that I would make sure that we were in a position where we dealt with climate change; where we moved in a direction that would significantly improve the prospects of American workers being able to have good jobs and good pay; and further, that I would make sure that we dealt with the crisis that was caused by COVID. We’ve done all of those; we continue to do them. And we’ll see what happens.

But I’m not running because of the polls.

Next question was from Jeff Mason — for Jeff Mason of Reuters.

Q Thank you, Mr. President. A question on climate and energy. Can the world and others be confident that you will be able to follow or do — make good on the promises on climate change that you will — that you have made, when you’re at Glasgow, without a vote having taken place on your bill?

And on the same topic, climate: Some NGOs are already saying that the G20 commitments today were underwhelming. How do you respond to their criticism that the G20 response is not a good sign for COP26?

THE PRESIDENT: I’ll answer both questions.

Number one, I believe we will pass my Build Back Better plan, and I believe we will pass the infrastructure bill. Combined, they have $900 billion in climate resistance — in dealing with climate and resilience. And it’s the largest investment in the history of the world that’s ever occurred, and it’s going to pass, in my view. But we’ll see. We’ll see.

You know, you’ve all believed it wouldn’t happen from the very beginning, the moment I announced it, and you always seem amazed when it’s alive again. Well, you may turn out to be right; maybe it won’t work. But I believe we’ll see by the end of next week, at home, that it’s passed.

With regard to the — and, by the way, that infrastructure bill delivers an awful lot of things in terms of everything from tax credits for electric vehicles, to making sure we are able to invest, literally, billions of dollars in everything from highways, roads, bridges, public transit, airports, et cetera. But we’ll see.

And with regard to the disappointment: The disappointment relates to the fact that Russia and — and — and including not only Russia, but China, basically didn’t show up in terms of any commitments to deal with climate change. And there’s a reason why people should be disappointed in that. I found it disappointing myself.

But what we did do — we passed a number of things here to end the subsidization of coal. We made commitments here from across the board, all of us, in terms of what we’re going to bring to the G26 [COP26].

And — and, I think, you know, as that old ba- — that old trite saying goes, “The proof of the pudding will be in the eating.” I think you’re going to see we’ve made significant progress and more has to be done. But it’s going to require us to continue to focus on what China is not doing, what Russia is not doing, and what Saudi Arabia is not doing.

Q One follow-up on energy, sir. You also met with energy consumers about supply. What steps are you considering taking if OPEC Plus does not raise supply? And do you see any irony in pushing them to increase oil production at the same time that you’re going to COP26 to urge people to lower emissions?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, on the surface, it seems like an irony, but the truth of the matter is — you’ve all known; everyone knows — that the idea we’re going to be able to move to renewable energy overnight and not have — from this moment on, not use oil or not use gas or not use hydrogen is just not rational.

Certain things we can wipe out and we don’t have to do. We should be moving immediately to get rid of — as they’ve adopted here my proposal — to end methane, to deal with a whole range of things.

But it does, on the surface, seem inconsistent, but it’s not at all inconsistent in that no one has anticipated that this year we’d be in a position — or even next year — that we’re not going to use any more oil or gas; that we’re not going to be engaged in any fossil fuels. We’re going to stop subsidizing those fossil fuels. We’re going to be making significant changes.

And it just makes the argument that we should move more rapidly to renewable energy — to wind and solar and other means of energy.

But the idea that we’re just going to end and somehow — but it does, on the surface, I admit to you. We’re going to COP to deal with renewable energy, and I’m saying, “Why are you guys cutting off oil and raising the price just to make it look harder for us?” But it’s a legitimate question.

I think, though, that if anybody thinks about it, no one ever thought that tomorrow — for example, it’s going to take us between now and 2030 to have half the vehicles in America electric vehicles. So, the idea we’re not going to need gasoline for automobiles is just not realistic. But we will get to the point that, by 2050, we have zero emissions.

Jim? Jim Tankersley, New York Times.

Q Thank you so much. I’d like to actually start by following up on Jeff’s question and then ask you about supply chains as a follow-up to that.

But on the question of oil prices, economists say that, you know, when you raise the price of something, people will consume less of it. So why not allow even middle-class people around the world to pay more for gasoline in the hope that they would consume fewer fossil fuels and emit less?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, because they have to get to their work. They have to get in an automobile, turn on the key, get their kids to school. The school buses have to run. That’s the reason why. You know that, Jim. That’s the reason.

The idea that we can — that there’s an alternative to walk away from being able to get in your automobile is just not realistic; it’s not going to happen. And this wasn’t intended to happen.

And, by the way, when — when — when the cost of a gallon of gasoline gets to above three hundred and — three hundred — $3.35 a gallon, it has profound impact on working-class families just to get back and forth to work. So, I don’t see anything inconsistent with that.

But I do think that the idea that Russia and Saudi Arabia and other major producers are not going to pump more oil so people can have gasoline to get to and from work, for example, is — is — is not — is not right. But — and what we’re considering doing on that, I’m reluctant to say before I have to do it.

Q And then on supply chain, sir: One of the, obviously, big problems in the United States for supply chains is not having enough workers, not enough people to drive trucks to unload at ports, for example, and a lot of other parts in the supply chain. Workers have not returned to the labor force in America as fast as your administration thought they would. Why do you think that is? Why aren’t people coming back to work?

THE PRESIDENT: Because they’re able to negotiate for higher wages, and they move from one job to another. That’s one of the reasons why. A lot of people don’t want to continue to do the job they did before, making 7, 8, 9 bucks an hour. An awful lot of the auto — excuse me, of the truck drivers are not unionized truck drivers. They’re working like hell and not getting paid a whole lot.

And so what you’re seeing here is a combination of the desire of people to be able to change professions, to be able to do more and take care of their families, and at the same time, dealing with the issue that, in fact, we are short of workers.

But worker pay has actually gone up. And we’ve employed 6 million people just since I got elected. So, employment is up. The economy is actually, in spite of all this, still growing. You have the significant number of — I forget the number; I think it was close to six- — 16 major economists acknowledging that what’s going to happen is you’re going to see continued economic growth under our proposals.

You had a total of 14 — I think it was 14 — Nobel laureate economists in economics saying this is going to — what I’m proposing is going to reduce the — the inflation, et cetera.

So, there’s a lot going on. This — look, we really are — I know you’re tired of hearing me say this — we really are at one of inflection points in history. So much is changing. So many pieces on the table are moving. And how they get resettled depends upon the judgments we make and whether or not the United States, among others, can lead the world in a direction that’s going to increase the circumstances for a higher standard of living for workers here and abroad, as well as making sure that people have an opportunity. As I said — again, I use the phrase — “just have a little breathing room.”

I meant what I said when I ran. My desire was to build this economy from the bottom up and the middle out, not from the top down. And that’s what’s in process of happening.

But in the meantime, there’s been enormous changes as a consequence of COVID on the supply chains because why — why are we having trouble? An awful lot of the very factories and — and operations that, in fact, produced material that we need for supply chains, in everything from shoes to — to dealing with computer chips, you know, they’re out sick; they’re not working.

And so, it’s changing. The economy is changing, and the United States has to stay ahead of the curve. That’s why I introduced the infrastructure bill. That’s why I also introduced the Build Back Better initiative.

The Washington Post, Seung Min Kim. Where — where are — there you are. I’m sorry. I couldn’t see you.

Q That’s okay. Thank you, Mr. President.

On Iran: How will you determine whether the Iranians are serious about rejoining the nuclear talks, as they have indicated they will do by the end of November?

And what costs are you prepared to impose on Iran if it continues to carry out attacks against the United States, such as the recent drone strikes against U.S. forces in Syria?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, in a sense, they’re two different issues. One is whether or not we get to the JCPOA — we rejoin that. And — and that depends — that’s why I had the meetings with my colleagues here in — in Rome, who are part of the — the original group of six people — six nations that got together to say that we should negotiate a change, which I found that I think we’re continuing to suffer from the very bad judgments that President Trump made in pulling out of the JCPOA.

And so, that’s one issue. And that issue is going to depend on — whether and how that gets resolved is going to depend on their action and the willingness of our friends, who are part of the original agreement, to stick with us and make sure there’s a price to pay economically for them if they fail to come back.

With regard to the issue of how we’re going to respond to actions taken by them against the interests of the United States — whether they’re drone strikes or anything else — is we’re going to respond, and we’re going to continue to respond.

ABC, Cecilia Vega.

It’s hard to see you guys with a mask on. I apologize.

Q And the masks are making my glasses fog up, so I apologize too.

Thank you, sir. On climate change: You just mentioned the incentives you have on renewable energy in your Build Back Better plan. You do have a number of incentives, but as it stands right now, there are no punitive measures in this plan to hold these companies accountable. And many experts firmly believe that you’ve got to have the stick along with the carrot in order to get to your goal to reduce emissions by 2030 by 50 percent. So can you stand here today and say to the world that you definitively will still meet that goal?

THE PRESIDENT: Yes, I can. Because what we’re proposing and what we’ve initiated is everything from getting the automobile makers to — to commit to going all electric, number one. Getting the unions to agree to do that as well. Making sure we have the investment in battery technology that requires us to have the ability to generate electric vehicles, electric buses, electric transportation grids. Making sure that we are dealing with everything from — let me go through some of these: that we have tax credits for — of $320 billion for dealing with alternatives by people getting a tax credit for moving on — on solar panels, on wind, and a whole range of other things, and winterizing their properties.

I — I don’t think you’re going to need any — any punitive action to get people to step up and do those things. There’s been no indication that’s the case at all. With regard to, you know, the — there’s a total of $555 billion in climate and — I’m just checking the numbers; make sure I’m right — and — climate investment, in terms of resilience.

We’re now — it’s very much in the interest of — of the industry to see to it that we move to making sure that we have the resilience to be able to, when those towers come down and the lines end up hitting the ground and burning down large swathes of — swaths of the West, to bury this underground.

There’s a whole range of things. I don’t think we’re going to have to — everybody knows which direction it’s going. And there’s no indication that there has to be a punitive effort to get people to react the way in which we have to do — at least I don’t believe so.

Q And a follow-up, sir, if I may. On your meeting with Pope Francis: The more than 50 million Catholics back at home are seeing something play out that has never happened before: this split in the conservative wing of the Catholic Church moving to deny someone like you, a Catholic president, the sacrament of Communion.

For these Catholics back home, what did it mean for you to hear Pope Francis, in the wake of this — in the middle of this debate, call you a good Catholic? And did what he tell you — should that put this debate to rest?

THE PRESIDENT: Look, I’m — I’m not going to — a lot of this is just personal. Pope Francis has become a — I don’t want to exaggerate — has become a — someone who has provided great solace for my family when my son died.

He has — he is, in my view — there’s always been this debate in the Catholic Church, going back to Pope John the 23rd, that talk about how we reach out and embrace people with differences.

If you notice what — what the Pope said when he was asked when he first got elected Pope — he was traveling with the press, and they said, “What’s your position on homosexuals?” He said, “Who am I to judge?”

This is a man who is of great empathy. He is a man who understands that part of his Christianity is to reach out and to forgive. And so I just find my relationship with him one that I personally take great solace in. He is a really, truly genuine, decent man.

And I’ll end by saying that, you know, there were an awful lot of people who — and many of you — I’m not — I’m not putting you in this position; I apologize — but many of you who are even in the press who went out of your way to express your empathy and sympathy when I lost the real part of my soul, when I — when my — when I lost my Beau, my son.

And I — my family will never forget — my extended family. Because when I had come — it was only a matter of days since my son had passed away, and Pope Francis came to the United States to visit with the — with not only President Obama but with — with the Catholic Church here. And I was asked if I would accompany him to Philadelphia, to the seminary, and — anyway.

And I did, but it was — the wounds were still raw of the loss of my son. And I had my extended family — and you’re all tired of seeing my extended family; they’re always — they’re always around — my grandchildren, my children, my wife, my daughters-in-law.

And before he left and got on the plane, the Pope asked whether or not he could meet with my family. And we met in a hangar in — at the Philadelphia Airport. And he came in and he talked to my family for a considerable amount of time — 10, 15 minutes — about my son, Beau.

And he didn’t just generically talk about him; he knew about him. He knew what he did. He knew who he was. He knew where he went to school. He knew what he — he knew what a man he was. And it had such a cathartic impact on his children and my wife and our family that it — it meant a great deal.

And as — I meant what I said — everybody was laughing; I didn’t realize you all were able to film what I was doing with the Pope when I gave him a command coin. And — and I meant what I said: I — this is a man who is someone who is looking to establish peace and decency and honor, not just in the Catholic Church, but just generically.

When I won, he called me to tell me how much he appreciated the fact that I would focus on the poor and focus on the needs of people who were in trouble. And — and so, I — I just — again, I don’t want to talk more about it, because so much of it is personal, but I’m — he is — he is everything I learned about Catholicism from the time I was a kid going from grade school through high school.

And I have great respect for people who have other religious views, but he is — he’s just a fine, decent, honorable man. And I — he — and we keep in touch.

I thank you all very, very much for your patience. Thank you. Thank you.

Q Mr. President, do you have commitments from Sinema and Manchin? Sir, do you have commitments from Sinema and Manchin? Just a “thumbs up.”

(The President gives a “thumbs up” as he departs.)

Q Thumbs up!

END 8:50 P.M. CET

Readout of President Biden’s Meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey

OCTOBER 31, 2021



President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. met today with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey on the margins of the G20 Summit. President Biden underscored his desire to maintain constructive relations, expand areas of cooperation, and manage our disagreements effectively. He expressed appreciation for Turkey’s nearly two decades of contributions to the NATO mission in Afghanistan. The leaders discussed the political process in Syria, the delivery of humanitarian assistance to Afghans in need, elections in Libya, the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean, and diplomatic efforts in the South Caucasus. President Biden reaffirmed our defense partnership and Turkey’s importance as a NATO Ally, but noted U.S. concerns over Turkey’s possession of the Russian S-400 missile system. He also emphasized the importance of strong democratic institutions, respect for human rights, and the rule of law for peace and prosperity.

G20 Rome Leaders’ Declaration

 

Press material Sunday 31 October 2021

● European Council   31/10/2021 17:57 | Press release | G20 Rome Leaders’ Declaration   We, the Leaders of the G20, met in Rome on October 30th and 31st, to address today’s most pressing global challenges and to converge upon common efforts to recover better from the COVID-19 crisis and enable sustainable and inclusive growth in our Countries and across the world. As the premier forum for international economic cooperation, we are committed to overcoming the global health and economic crisis stemming from the pandemic, which has affected billions of lives, dramatically hampered progress towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and disrupted global supply chains and international mobility. With this in mind, we express our profound gratitude to the health and care professionals, frontline workers, international organizations and scientific community for their relentless efforts to cope with COVID-19. Underlining the crucial role of multilateralism in finding shared, effective solutions, we have agreed to further strengthen our common response to the pandemic, and pave the way for a global recovery, with particular regard to the needs of the most vulnerable. We have taken decisive measures to support Countries most in need to overcome the pandemic, improve their resilience and address critical challenges such as ensuring food security and environmental sustainability. We have agreed upon a shared vision to combat climate change, and taken important steps towards the achievement of gender equality. We have also further advanced in our common efforts to ensure that the benefits of digitalization are shared broadly, safely and contribute to reducing inequalities. Read the full declaration

THE WHITE HOUSE:Background Press Call by Senior Administration Officials on the President’s Upcoming G20 Visit..

Background Press Call by Senior Administration Officials on the President’s Upcoming G20 Visit
OCTOBER 29, 2021

Via Teleconference

(October 29, 2021)

7:11 P.M. CEST

MODERATOR: All right. Good evening, everybody. This is [senior administration official]. Thank you for joining us for this background briefing call previewing tomorrow, day one of the G20.

Joining us today is [senior administration official]. He’ll give some remarks at the top, and then we’ll have time to take just a couple of questions.

As we said in the email, this briefing will be on background, attributable to a “senior administration official,” and will be embargoed until 5:00 a.m. local time in Rome, tomorrow, Saturday, October 30th.

And with that, I will hand it over to [senior administration official].

SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Yes, thanks. So, let me just say a few words at the top, and then I’m happy to take a few questions.

So, today was a good day in Rome. President Biden had a one-on-one meeting with His Holiness, Pope Francis. I know the President shared some thoughts about what the meeting meant to him. President Biden also met with President Mattarella and Prime Minister Draghi of Italy, and President Macron of France.

In those meetings, he affirmed the strength of our partnerships and shared values with these European allies on a broad range of issues.

Tomorrow, the President will participate in the first G20 Plenary Session, which covers global health and the global economy, and he’ll also meet with the E3+1 on Iran.

Joint Statement by Emmanuel Macron,Angela Merkel,Boris Johnson,Joseph R. Biden, on Iran

Joint Statement by the President of France Emmanuel Macron, Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland Boris Johnson, and President of the United States Joseph R. Biden, Jr. on Iran
OCTOBER 30, 2021

We, the President of France, Chancellor of Germany, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and President of the United States, met in Rome today to discuss the risks posed to international security by Iran’s escalating nuclear program. We expressed our determination to ensure that Iran can never develop or acquire a nuclear weapon and shared our grave and growing concern that, while Iran halted negotiations on a return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) since June, it has accelerated the pace of provocative nuclear steps, such as the production of highly enriched uranium and enriched uranium metal. Iran has no credible civilian need for either measure, but both are important to nuclear weapons programs.

These steps have only been made more alarming by Iran’s simultaneously decreased cooperation and transparency with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). We agreed that continued Iranian nuclear advances and obstacles to the IAEA’s work will jeopardize the possibility of a return to the JCPOA.

The current situation underscores the importance of a negotiated solution that provides for the return of Iran and the U.S. to full compliance with the JCPOA and provides the basis for continued diplomatic engagement to resolve remaining points of contention – both our concerns and Iran’s. In this spirit, we welcome President Biden’s clearly demonstrated commitment to return the U.S. to full compliance with the JCPOA and to stay in full compliance, so long as Iran does the same.

We are convinced that it is possible to quickly reach and implement an understanding on return to full compliance and to ensure for the long term that Iran’s nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes.

Return to JCPOA compliance will provide sanctions lifting with long-lasting implications for Iran’s economic growth. This will only be possible if Iran changes course. We call upon President Raisi to seize this opportunity and return to a good faith effort to conclude our negotiations as a matter of urgency. That is the only sure way to avoid a dangerous escalation, which is not in any country’s interest.

We welcome our Gulf partners’ regional diplomatic efforts to deescalate tensions and note that return to the JCPOA would result both in sanctions lifting allowing for enhanced regional partnerships and a reduced risk of a nuclear crisis that would derail regional diplomacy. We also affirm our shared determination to address broader security concerns raised by Iran’s actions in the region.

We are committed to continuing to work closely with the Russian Federation, the People’s Republic of China, and the European Union High Representative, as Coordinator, in resolving this critical issue.

Second day of the G20 Rome Summit

October 31st, 2021

The second day of the G20 Summit in Rome will start with a walk of the Heads of Delegation in one of the symbolic places of the historic downtown: Trevi Fountain.

The Convention Center La Nuvola will then host both the multilateral sessions and the bilateral meetings of the Leaders. At 10.30 there will be a side event on the role of the private sector in the fight against climate change. The main speaker will be Charles, Prince of Wales.

At 11 and at 13.50 the programme includes two working sessions dedicated respectively to Climate Change and Environment and to Sustainable Development.

The Summit will end with the traditional final press conference by Prime Minister Mario Draghi who, opening the meeting yesterday, highlighted that “multilateralism is the best answer to the problems we face today. In many ways, it is the only possible answer”. The press conference will be streamed live on the YouTube channel of the Italian G20 Presidency at approximately 16.15 CET.

EΠΙΤΡΟΠΗ ΚΑΤΟΙΚΩΝ ΒΑΡΥΜΠΟΜΠΗΣ-ΘΡΑΚΟΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΩΝ:ΠΡΟΣΚΛΗΣΗ

 

ΕΥΑ ΠΑΣΧΑΛΙΔΟΥ

ΑΝΑΚΟΙΝΩΣΗ - ΠΡΟΣΚΛΗΣΗ

ΤΗΣ ΣΥΝΤΟΝΙΣΤΙΚΗΣ ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΗΣ ΚΑΤΟΙΚΩΝ ΒΑΡΥΜΠΟΜΠΗΣ-

ΘΡΑΚΟΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΩΝ

Πριν περίπου δύο μήνες, χάσαμε και πάλι ένα μεγάλο μέρος του φυσικού πλούτου

της περιοχής μας, ένα ακόμα πνεύμονα πρασίνου για όλη την Αττική. Βρεθήκαμε

ανυπεράσπιστοι εξαιτίας της απουσίας μέτρων αντιπυρικής προστασίας. Βρεθήκαμε

με πενιχρή χρηματοδότηση για διάνοιξη και συντήρηση δασικών δρόμων. Βρεθήκαμε

με υποστελεχωμένη την πυροσβεστική και με μέσα απαρχαιωμένα ή ελλιπώς

συντηρημένα με συνέπεια να χάσουμε τα σπίτια μας , τις επιχειρήσεις μας

περιμένοντας ακόμα τις αποζημιώσεις.

Τώρα έχουμε μπροστά μας το χειμώνα. Ήδη ζήσαμε το εφιάλτη με τον «Μπάλο» πριν

λίγες μέρες.

Με ευθύνη της Κυβέρνησης, της Περιφέρειας Αττικής και της Δημοτικής Αρχής, τα

διάφορα ρέματα που υπάρχουν στην περιοχή της Βαρυμπόμπης και των

Θρακομακεδόνων παραμένουν κατεστραμμένα από τη φωτιά, γεμάτα με φερτά

υλικά. Ο Εθνικός Δρυμός της Πάρνηθας που αποτελεί πνεύμονα όλης της Αττικής

πληγώθηκε βαθιά γιατί τα μέτρα πρόληψης και αντιμετώπισης της πυρκαγιάς δεν

είναι ανταποδοτικά κι έτσι δεν εφαρμόζονται από όλες τις κυβερνήσεις και την

σημερινή.

Ό,τι δεν κάηκε κινδυνεύει από την πλημμύρα καθώς τα αντιπλημμυρικά έργα(

διαχρονικό ,μη εκπληρούμενο έργο υποδομής) καθυστερούν παρ ́όλα που είναι

επιτακτική ανάγκη να γίνουν σύντομα κάτω από τις διαμορφωμένες συνθήκες .

Αρκετά με τις δικαιολογίες περί γραφειοκρατίας και κλιματολογικής κρίσης .Δεν

ανεχόμαστε να είμαστε απροστάτευτοι στους φυσικούς κινδύνους όταν η επιστήμη

και η τεχνολογία δίνει την δυνατότητα να αντιμετωπιστούν.

Καλούμε όλους τους κατοίκους της περιοχής να συμμετέχουν στο συλλαλητήριο μαζί

με όλους τους πληγέντες της Ελλάδας, πολλαπλασιάζοντας την δύναμή μας

,ασκώντας πίεση στην κυβέρνηση που έχει ευθύνη για τις καταστροφές που έχουμε

υποστεί ,διεκδικώντας όλα όσα μας ανήκουν. Τα αιτήματα μας είναι δίκαια

συνεχίζουμε σαν επιτροπή την συλλογή υπογραφών κάτω από το υπόμνημα των

αιτημάτων μας.

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