Overview

• President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva called the online meeting to demonstrate unity against Washington’s punitive trade actions and to defend a WTO-centered multilateral trading system.
• Leaders committed to “re-found” the global free-trade framework and issued a political rejection of protectionism and tariff pressure.
• China’s Xi Jinping participated and delivered remarks, Russia’s Vladimir Putin joined the session, and India was represented by Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar rather than Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
• Participants agreed to coordinate joint positions for upcoming engagements at the UN General Assembly, COP30 in Belém, and the G20 summit in South Africa.
• Lula condemned what he called “tariff blackmail” and voiced concern over rising military tension in the Caribbean tied to U.S. naval deployments and accusations against Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro.