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It took until close to midnight on Friday for a handful of leading developing countries to propose their compromise. Accept this, was the pitch, or bear the consequences of a fractured G20.<\/p>\n

After five days of gruelling discussions, the western delegates took the deal. When their bosses assembled the next day at the summit in New Delhi, the scale of their concession was made stark. <\/p>\n

The US, EU and other western allies had agreed to remove condemnation of Russian president Vladimir Putin\u2019s war against Ukraine from the meeting\u2019s communique, in exchange for pledges from all 20 states \u2014 including Russia and China \u2014 to respect territorial integrity and work towards a \u201cjust peace\u201d for Kyiv.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a climbdown,\u201d said Sarang Shidore, director of the Quincy Institute\u2019s Global South programme. <\/p>\n

The degree to which the western allies were willing to compromise, despite Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Putin skipping the summit, highlighted just how keen they were to salvage the credibility of a grouping that had come under severe pressure since Russia invaded Ukraine just over 18 months ago. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf we would be writing the text ourselves, it would be looking very different,\u201d said a senior EU official. \u201cIt\u2019s a process of building a global consensus. So if this means formulating compromises, then this is what\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009needs to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n

US officials echoed that argument. The west needed big developing countries onside to have any chance of them pressurising Russia to keep in check with global rules and achieve peace in Ukraine. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe major economies of the world \u2014 including, by the way, Brazil, India, South Africa \u2014\u00a0are united on the need to uphold international law and for Russia to respect international law,\u201d said Jon Finer, the deputy US national security adviser.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s lead negotiator praised the statement \u2014 which also calls for a return to the Black Sea grain deal to export Ukrainian foodstuffs that Moscow has withdrawn from \u2014 as \u201cbalanced\u201d. Ukraine, however, condemned the shift in rhetoric as \u201cnothing to be proud of\u201d. <\/p>\n

Having accepted that they cannot force Putin to back down alone, the New Delhi declaration represents the most far-reaching effort by Washington, Brussels and other western capitals to forge a shared position with the world\u2019s most powerful developing economies. <\/p>\n

It is also a largely unexpected win for Narendra Modi, India\u2019s prime minister, who is facing national elections next year. Modi\u2019s decision to parlay his rotating G20 presidency into a year-long platform to promote India\u2019s culture, foreign policy goals, and ambition to serve as a leader of the so-called Global South developing countries has paid off, analysts said. <\/p>\n

\u201cWashington clearly has gone the extra mile to ensure that its burgeoning and increasingly close partner India was not embarrassed with what would otherwise have been the first G20 without a joint declaration,\u201d Shidore said. <\/p>\n

Since India\u2019s G20 presidency began in December, working groups of central bankers, education, health, tourism and other ministers leading up to this weekend\u2019s leaders\u2019 summit, had all sought to break a deadlock over the \u201cBali paragraph\u201d \u2014\u00a0text from the final G20 summit in Indonesia last November that condemned Russian \u201caggression\u201d in Ukraine. <\/p>\n

Russia and China vetoed the language, and many developing nations had voiced their discomfort at it remaining in this year\u2019s statement. <\/p>\n

While India continued to express optimism it could find a consensus at the summit, many foreign delegations were sceptical.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were question marks about the future of the G20. And I think India\u2019s strong leadership has preserved the G20,\u201d the senior EU official said.<\/p>\n

Western diplomats argued that their willingness to compromise on dropping the reference to Russian \u201caggression\u201d had ensured China and others agreed to wording on stopping attacks on infrastructure, restoring the Black Sea grain deal, and upholding territorial integrity. <\/p>\n

Amitabh Kant, India\u2019s G20 lead negotiator, said at a news conference on Sunday that the compromise \u201cdemonstrates both the prime minister\u2019s and India\u2019s great ability to bring all developing countries, all the emerging markets, all developed countries \u2014 China, Russia, everybody \u2014 around the same table and bring consensus\u201d. <\/p>\n

All 83 paragraphs of the leaders\u2019 declaration, Kant said, had \u201c100 per cent acceptance\u201d, including eight paragraphs relating to geopolitical issues. \u201cThis is a complete statement with 100 per cent unanimity,\u201d Kant said. <\/p>\n

India was also able to secure the admission of the African Union into the G20, a commitment on reform of multilateral banks, along with progress on the regulation of cryptocurrencies and the framework for restructuring heavily indebted countries\u2019 debt. <\/p>\n

There was no such fanfare from China, however, which played down the win for its delegates, who were led by Xi Jinping\u2019s second-in-command, premier Li Qiang. Below a large headline item on Xi discussing development of China\u2019s north-east, the official government news agency Xinhua ran only a brief report on the G20. <\/p>\n

France\u2019s president Emmanuel Macron also sought to play down the compromise in the communique, saying the G20 was \u201cnot the forum for political discussions\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are here to mainly talk about economic topics and climate change,\u201d Macron told reporters after the summit. \u201cOf course we disagree on Ukraine given that Russia is a member of the G20. That said, this is not the main place where this will be solved.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, other western delegates claimed this weekend\u2019s compromise will aid their efforts to persuade developing nations to pressure Moscow into ending the war. Their negotiating partners would now go back to their capitals with pledges on preserving Ukraine\u2019s territory and infrastructure in mind. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not the end of the discussion,\u201d the senior EU official added. \u201cBut it\u2019s another stepping stone in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Joe Leahy in Beijing<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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