2025 G20 Johannesburg Summit

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2025 G20 Johannesburg Summit
20th G20 Summit
←  19th 22–23 November 202521st →
G20 2025 Logo SouhtAfrica.png
Host countryFlag of South Africa.svg  South Africa
MottoSolidarity, Equality, Sustainability
Venue(s)TBA
Cities Johannesburg
Participants G20 members
Invited States:
Denmark, Egypt, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands,
New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates
International bodies:
AFDB, CAF, FSB, FAO, IDB, ILO, IMF, LAS, NDB, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, World Bank, WHO, WTO
Chair Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa
Website g20.org

The G20 Johannesburg Summit will be the twentieth meeting of the Group of Twenty (G20), a meeting of heads of state and government held from 22 to 23 November 2025. [1] It will be the first G20 summit held in South Africa and on the African continent.

Contents

Presidency

South Africa assumed the G20 presidency from 1 December 2024 to November 2025, approximately five years ahead of the United Nations (UN) Agenda 2030 deadline.

There are high expectations that South Africa will lead a progressive, people-centred, development-oriented and solution-oriented presidency, in a fractured global geopolitical context, until it hands over the presidency to the United States on 1 December 2025. [2]

South Africa’s participation in the G20 is guided by its four strategic foreign policy pillars (national interests, the African Agenda, South-South Cooperation and Multilateralism). [2]

Summit topic

For the G20 to make a meaningful contribution in addressing the polycrisis confronting the world, South Africa has adopted the theme “Solidarity, Equality, Sustainability”.

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This theme reflects South Africa’s intention to build on the efforts and successes of the last three G20 Presidencies of the Global South and to advance the development agenda.

Through solidarity, we seek to achieve a people-centred, development-oriented and inclusive future. In an interconnected world, the challenges facing one nation affect all nations. By promoting equality, we seek to ensure fair treatment, opportunities and progress for all people and nations, regardless of their economic status, gender, race, geographic location or other characteristics. Sustainability is about meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own. [2]

Agenda priorities

South Africa will continue to use the G20 as a premier forum for economic and financial cooperation, bringing together developed and developing countries, and emerging markets to find solutions to global challenges. During the 2024 State of the Nation Address, President Cyril Ramaphosa stated that “we will put Africa’s development at the top of the agenda when we host the G20 in 2025.” [2]

South Africa will use its G20 Presidency to advocate and mobilise support for developing economies in Africa and the Global South, building on the efforts and successes of the Indonesian, Indian and Brazilian Presidencies to champion the development agenda.

The South African G20 Presidency will drive the following high-level outcomes and priorities, which will be expressed in the work of the Sherpa and Finance Tracks

High-level priorities

South Africa’s G20 Presidency will drive the following high-level deliverables, and priorities, which will find expression in the work of the Sherpa and Finance Tracks: [2]

Participating leaders

Invited guests

The following country leaders have been invited to the summit: [3]

Invited organizations

The following organization leaders have been invited to the summit: [3]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ The president of China is legally a ceremonial office, but the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (de facto leader in one-party communist state) has always held this office since 1993 except for the months of transition, and the current general secretary is Xi Jinping, who is also the Chinese president.

References

  1. ↑ "G20 Leaders'Summit" . Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "G20 Presidency" . Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  3. 1 2 "Invitees" . Retrieved 3 December 2024.
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