The United States remains committed to broad based growth that can expand opportunity and lift up all of our people, declared Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a meeting of the G20 nations in New York.
That's only possible in an economy that protects its workers. That’s why President Joe Biden launched the Partnership for Worker Rights last year to promote labor rights, worker voices, and collective bargaining.
The United States is investing in infrastructure, including roads, clean energy, and fiber optic cables through the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment.
The U.S. is also coming together with partner countries to enhance food security, noted Secretary Blinken.
“The United States is proud to be the world's largest donor funding one out of every $3 of the world food programs, global operations providing more than $17.5 billion in food aid since 2021.”
With regard to the environment, Secretary Blinken expressed the need to address climate change:
“The United States is making the biggest investments of any country ever to accelerate the transition to clean energy, keeping us on track to cut our own emissions by half by 2030. At the same time, we're working with partners like Brazil to preserve the Amazon, dedicating billions to help people in developing countries adapt to and manage the impacts of the climate crisis.”
Effectively addressing economic inequality, food security, and climate change “requires us to reform global institutions to better reflect today's world,” stressed Secretary Blinken. This means that developing countries in particular must have a greater voice in the multilateral system.
“That's why the United States strongly supported the African Union joining the G20. ... Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield announced that the United States supports expanding the U.N. Security Council to include two permanent seats for African countries, a nonpermanent seat for small island developing states, and to move from talk to action text based negotiations through the intergovernmental negotiations process. We've reaffirmed our support for permanent representation for Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as those countries we have long supported for permanent seats Germany, India, Japan.”
At the upcoming G20 summit in November, the United States looks forward to working with all of its partners to build a future of greater dignity and greater opportunity for all of its people.
