This is how the G20 meetings began in Brazil: Biden has already met with several presidents

The complicity between Emmanuel Macron and Javier MileiXi Jinping silently sitting next to Olaf Scholz and Joe Biden avoiding the steep red carpet and going to the plenary session by another route were some of the striking images left by the start of the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, arrived on time to receive the heads of state and government of the G20 at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiroin the midst of an extensive and bureaucratic security device.

The compound is a real bunker fenced for several kilometers around and full of military armored vehicles. Lula opted for the tie for big events, with the green and yellow colors of the Brazilian flag.

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And he didn’t make it easy for his partners to get to him. The leaders and the rest of the high-level authorities had to walk a handful of meters on a red carpet that ended up in a structure similar to that of the Planalto Palace, headquarters of the Brazilian Government, in Brasilia.

Lula was waiting at the top, along with his wife Rosângela da Silva. All the leaders had to face the challenge of having to walk up in suits.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, both already in their 70s, achieved it at their own pace. Chinese leader Xi Jinping, too; as well as the Mexican Claudia Sheinbaum.

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The only one who avoided the increase was the President of the United States, Joe Biden, who opted for another route, according to the official transmission of the G20.

Lula was caught a little off guard and someone from protocol had to approach him to show him where his American counterpart was going to come.

The cold greeting between Lula and his Argentine counterpart, Javier Milei, also took place on that ramp, in their first public face-to-face. The political dialogue between the two is null and void due to their ideological differences and the insults that the second has dedicated to the first: “thief” and “corrupt”, among others.

Good mood before the start

Already in the enormous room set up to accommodate the representatives from 55 countries and international organizations During the three plenary sessions that this summit will host, there were moments of relaxation among the leaders before the official opening.

Biden He got to talking to the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa joined the conversation. The three of them burst out laughing.

Xi Jinping was placed next to the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, with whom he shook hands with a slight smile, although when they both sat down a wall seemed to rise between them.

The relationships between European Union (EU) and China have recently been shaken by trade disputes.

Lavrov, representing President Vladimir Putin, one of the major absentees from the meeting, began to speak with Erdogan; while Milei and the French leader, Emmanuel Macron, demonstrated enormous complicity. Macron, in fact, has just visited the ‘libertarian’ president in Argentina and this Monday they exhibited an excellent and surprising harmony.