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In a document summarising the meeting, the Indian government said “most members strongly condemned the war in Ukraine and stressed it is causing immense human suffering and exacerbating existing fragilities in the global economy”. It noted, however, that there were “other views” as well as a recognition that “the G20 is not the forum to resolve security issues”. The differences meant the meeting did not result in a joint communique signed by all members of the G20, whose countries account for 85 percent of the world’s economic output and two-thirds of its population. The same dispute thwarted a consensus at...