How The Riyadh Summit Was Different This Year!

  • Date: 27-Nov-2020
  • Source: Asharq AL-awsat
  • Sector:Economy
  • Country:Saudi Arabia
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How The Riyadh Summit Was Different This Year!

Since the world's twenty largest economies fall under the Group of Twenty's umbrella, the discussions are marked by a focus on the economy every year.

While economy is the language of politics in this particular epoch, the discussions at every annual summit would begin and end with politics, even when meetings try to avoid political discussions and try hard to focus on the economy!

And because energy is the most important of the economy's sectors in our time, with oil at the forefront of the sector, discussions would roam about it at every new summit, noting that with the Riyadh Summit this year the group marked its 15th meeting.

However, things were different during this year's summit!

Last year, when Saudi Arabia agreed to host the new summit, it had no idea that this year would be exceptional and that it would be known as the year of the pandemic. It did not know that this year would be remembered as the year that drained and yet continues to drain the world; the year that strained all economies and continues to strain them; the year that would not allow any of the world's capitals evade the grim fears left behind by