Leaders of G20 Ready to Begin the Summit

Tribatanews.polri.go.id –  The day before the G20 Summit, heads of state and heads of government arrived in Bali. Two of the leaders of the world's major countries who arrived include Chinese President Xi Jinping and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

"Everything went smoothly, there are no changes from the set schedule," said the Director General of Information and Public Communication of the Ministry of Communication and Informatics (IKP) Usman Kansong, to the Communications and Media Team, Monday (14/11/2022).

President Xi Jinping landed in Ngurah Rai at around 15:45 WITA followed by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak arrived at 18:46 WITA.

Other than them, other guests and delegates that have arrived, including French President Emmanuel Macron, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Argentine President Alberto Fernandez, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Meanwhile, several heads of state who were invited to the G20 summit also arrived on the same day, these include Senegalese President Macky Sall, Surinamese President Chandrikapersad Santokhi, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and Spanish President Pedro Sanchez.

Around the same time, the heads of world institutions such as UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, European Union President Charles Michel, WTO Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus arrived at almost the same time.

Leaders of other G20 member countries whose presence is still being awaited are German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi, and Saudi Arabian Prime Minister Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.

"That's a common thing because at every summit there are always countries that suddenly are unable to attend for various reasons," said Usman.

Reported from indonesia.go.id some of the delegates who attended included United States President Joe Biden, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, ADB President Masatsugu Asakawa, WEF Chair Klaus Martin Schwab, IsDB President Muhammad Sulaiman Al Jasser, ILO Director General Gilbert F Houngbo, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon, and Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov.