US Presses to Narrow Summit Declaration Agenda, Sources Say
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- US negotiators are reportedly pushing to remove language on poverty reduction, energy transition, and gender from a joint declaration, narrowing the focus to immigration, crime, terrorism, investment, and trade.
- This effort, described by sources as favoring US interests, aims to shape the agenda for an upcoming summit.
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Delegation members, known as sherpas, met in Washington to draft a Joint Declaration for an upcoming summit. The US is reportedly seeking to narrow the declaration's agenda.
Two delegation members described the effort as the group’s top negotiators, also known as sherpas, met in Washington on Monday and Tuesday for their second in a planned series of sessions to draft the Joint Declaration that leaders are to issue at the summit.
They said the US “pressed to strip the text of language on poverty reduction, energy transition and gender” and to narrow the agenda to immigration, transnational crime, terrorism, foreign investment and what it calls “fair trade”.
Both spoke on condition of anonymity because the negotiations were private.
One said the US had worked since December, when the group first met, to draft language “favouring its own interests over smaller, developing economies”, and described the gathering as something the Americans treated as “a pretty backdrop for a photo of Trump and Xi”.
The SCMP reached out to both the White House and the US State Department, but neither immediately responded to requests for comment.
أسئلة مفتوحة
- Will the US succeed in narrowing the agenda?
- What specific language will be retained or removed?
- What will be the final composition of the Joint Declaration?
