In his own speech before the foreign ministers meeting, U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy criticized Russia for what he called “Tsarist imperialism.”

President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered the keynote address at the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting at Nasrec on Thursday. The president discussed high debt repayments for poor countries during his address.

In his address during the first G20 Foreign Ministers’ meeting under a South African G20 Presidency, Cyril Ramaphosa reflected on the interconnected challenges of geopolitical tensions, rising intolerance,