Faced with a boycott by the United States, on Sunday 23 November in Johannesburg the nineteen other leaders of the world’s most developed economies reaffirmed their attachment to “multilateralism” and their “unwavering commitment to act in accordance with international law, including (...) the Charter of the United Nations and its principle of peaceful settlement of disputes”.
In their declaration, the G20 countries refer to the Ubuntu philosophy, which recognises that...