Vietnam participates in the founding of the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty

On the morning of November 18, 2024 (local time), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the G20 Summit 2024 opened with the theme "Building a fair world and a sustainable planet" under the chair of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, G20 President in 2024.

After 19 times of organization, this year's G20 Summit gathered the largest participation of leaders ever, including 21 G20 members, 19 guest countries, and 15 key international organizations. The G20 Summit 2024 is expected to contribute to promoting multilateralism and strengthening macro-policy coordination in solving urgent global development challenges.

The Summit opened with the launching ceremony of the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty and a discussion session on the fight against hunger and poverty. Here, Brazilian President Lula da Silva affirmed that poverty eradication not only ensures social justice but also is the core condition for building a prosperous society and a peaceful world. At the same time, the President also announced a list of founding countries of the Alliance, including Vietnam.

Speaking at the discussion session, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh called on countries to have stronger political determination, greater resources, and more drastic actions for more specific, practical, and effective programs and projects. Because eradicating poverty not only has a noble humanitarian significance but also is one of the most important foundations, directly impacting ensuring peace, security, and stability globally.

The Prime Minister shared with other countries three lessons of Vietnam in poverty eradication, which are not to sacrifice security, progress, social justice, and the environment to pursue simple economic growth; to attach special importance to food security and identify agriculture as the pillar of the economy; and to take people as the center and subject, prioritize investment in people, and develop high-quality human resources associated with science and technology and innovation.

On that basis, the Prime Minister proposed three strategic guarantees for global poverty eradication.

First, ensuring peace, stability, and development cooperation is a prerequisite for poverty eradication and inclusive development. According to the Prime Minister, the G20 needs to promote its leading role in ensuring peace, stability, and development cooperation and avoiding the politicization of science and technology as well as development issues, particularly in trade, agriculture, and food security.

Second, ensuring a global agri-food system that is efficient, stable, adaptable, and resilient to climate change is a long-term foundation. The Prime Minister called on the G20 to speed up technology transfer and provide technical assistance, preferential financing, and smart governance for developing and less-developed countries in transitioning to green and sustainable agriculture. Additionally, he urged support for securing food supply chains for low-income countries.

Third, ensure investment in people, taking education, training, and social welfare as the key tasks for building a harmonious, inclusive, and sustainable society. Take people as the center, subject, goal, motivation, and resource for sustainable development; prioritize resources and build practical, feasible, and effective policies for hunger eradication and poverty reduction, towards "leaving no one behind.".

At the end of his speech, the Prime Minister quoted the late President Ho Chi Minh's adage "Solidarity is invincible" and affirmed that Viet Nam pledges to uphold multilateralism, maintain close international solidarity, and actively and effectively contribute to common efforts to build a world without long-term poverty and a sustainable world. Vietnam is ready to share experiences and coordinate with G20 countries and international organizations to implement South-South and trilateral programs on ensuring food security and combating global poverty.

On the same afternoon, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended the discussion session "Reform of global governance institutions." During the G20 Presidency, Brazil launched the Call for Action on Global Governance Reform, the first document promoted by the G20 and open to all UN member states. Vietnam is one of the developing countries pioneering in supporting the Call, contributing to promoting reform of more equal and effective global governance mechanisms.

The G20 Summit 2024 will continue to take place on November 19, with a session on sustainable development and energy transition. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh will attend and give an important speech at this session.