Biden, Trudeau, Meloni miss traditional photo with world leaders at G20 in Brazil

While Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa were disposable successful the beforehand of the authoritative representation of the G20 Summit being held successful Rio.

U.S. President Joe Biden, apical left, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, 2nd from apical left, and Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni get precocious for the radical photograph astatine the G20 Summit successful Rio de Janeiro, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was disposable successful the backmost row. Russian President Vladimir Putin was conspicuously absent from the summit. The US officials said that President Biden had intended to beryllium portion of the photo, but it occurred earlier than scheduled.

Biden and Trudeau arrived unneurotic astatine the photograph league but till the duo arrived, the authoritative photograph was clicked. Italian PM Meloni besides did not articulation successful the radical photo, a acceptable portion of specified summits.

President Biden and Prime Ministers Trudeau, Meloni formed a abstracted huddle astatine the photograph league country aft missing retired connected the authoritative photograph and were clicked thereafter.

The authoritative photograph league got implicit successful seconds erstwhile the radical of leaders from multilateral countries posed against the backdrop of the Brazilian city’s iconic Sugarloaf Mountain.