Transcript (en)

And this what I hope will be a productive meeting today as we are in a critical moment. I would call it a moment of choosing and I would say not just for my country, the United States of America, but frankly for the world. We are facing a series of interconnected economic and geopolitical crises, many of which pose severe threats. Severe threats to essential foundations of the global economic order. new disruptions and strains to global energy and food supplies and food markets to to the global supply chain to trade to freedom of navigation itself and the g20 must work together to confront these threats to strengthen our economic resilience to safeguard our markets and the economies that they sustain the challenge we have the challenges we have addressed during the presidency of President Trump are multifaceted and interconnected and the solutions must be two. Here we can help set the context for expanded geopolitical stability and the broader economic prosperity agenda that our leaders will tackle As diplomats as political leaders we have a vital role to play We are tasked, on behalf of the nations that we serve, to work together with one another to coordinate responses to emerging crisis and to protect our shared interests. By translating our shared interests into practical cooperation and real action, we can reinforce global stability. and more importantly we can deliver meaningful results for our citizens. We have a lot to cover over the next two days. Briefly in terms of the modalities we're going to cover two issues in this plenary session, freedom of navigation and food security. I'll introduce the topic and turn to the next speaker. We'll go around the table. We'll do it in alphabetical order. I would ask if we can, I know these are complex and nuanced topics, but if we could limit it to three minutes or so for each intervention, because if we don't, then we will be here for a long period of time. And then I'll wrap up at the end of each topic as we move on to the next one. Thank you.