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THE Group of 77 plus China summit kicked off in Havana, Cuba, on Friday to help build a “new economic world order.”
The meeting of the group of developing and emerging countries that represents around 80 per cent of the global population met amid warnings of growing polarisation in the world.
United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres joined some 30 heads of state and governments from across Africa, Asia and Latin America for the two-day summit.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said the meeting, which runs until Saturday, is set to issue a statement on “the right to development in an increasingly exclusive, unfair, unjust and plundering international order.”
Mr Rodriguez added that the statement will call for “the establishment of a new economic world order.”
The bloc, which was established by 77 countries of the global South in 1964 now has 134 members, including China, which is not a full member.
Cuba took over the rotating presidency in January.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel was set to deliver the opening address of the summit followed by a speech by Mr Guterres.
The summit comes ahead of the 78th session of the UN general assembly which opens in New York City on Monday.
