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The 13th meeting of the Group of Twenty (G20) will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina between November 30 to December 1. This year's meeting will be the first G20 summit to be hosted in
South America. President Mauricio Macri of Argentina assumed the one year G20 presidency in November 2017, following a ceremony in Kirchner Cultural Centre, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Some of the items on the agenda will include the future of work, infrastructure for development and a sustainable food future. A number of countries who will be attending have also mentioned
the regulation of crypto-currencies will also be discussed at this meeting. WHAT WORLD LEADERS WILL BE AT G20 2018? Here is a list of possible participating leaders for this year’s summit:
Mauricio Macri, President of Argentina and host of G20 2018 Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia Michel Temer, President of Brazil Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada Xi Jinping,
President of China Donald Tusk, President of the European Council Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission Emmanuel Macron, President of France Angela Merkel, Chancellor of
Germany Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India Jusuf Kalla, Vice President of Indonesia Giuseppe Conte, Prime Minister of Italy Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan Enrique Pena Nieto,
President of Mexico Vladimir Putin, President of Russia Mohammad bin Salman al Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa Moon Jae-in, President of South
Korea, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey Theresa May, Prime Minister of the UK Donald Trump, President of the USA WHAT IS THE G20? The G20 accounts for 85 percent of the world’s GDP
and two-thirds of its population. When it began 17 years ago, the summits were just between the finance ministers and central bank governors of members. The first summit was held in Berlin,
in December 1999, by the German and Canadian finance ministers. But now annual meetings between G20 leaders themselves have been taking place since 2008, when the leaders met in Washington
DC, in the US, after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. The last summit was held in Hamburg, Germany, in July 2017, which was the first time the country had hosted G20 heads of
Government. Overall, there have been 20 G20 meetings between finance ministers and central bank governors, as well as 12 summits between heads of state of G20 countries. Meeting usually take
place annually but there were two meetings in 2009 and 2010 during a crisis of the global economy. The countries in the G20 are Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India,
Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Turkey, UK, USA, China and South Africa. The European Union is also a member of G20 and is represented by the European
Commission, the rotating council presidency and the European Central Bank (EBC). Spain also attends the leader summits as a permanent non-member invitee.