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South Africa urges cooperation at G20 meeting amid tensions over Ukraine

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa warns divisions are threatening a fragile global coexistence [Emmanuel Croset/AFP]

Foreign ministers from the G20 top economies have gathered in South Africa’s Johannesburg, amid geopolitical rifts, tensions over the Ukraine war and with the top US diplomat a notable absentee.

The G20, a grouping of 19 countries as well as the European Union and the African Union that represent some 85 percent of global GDP and three-quarters of trade, is deeply divided on key issues from Russia’s war in Ukraine to climate change.

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