Daily Times

King Salman of Saudi Arabia will chair the virtual summit of G20 leaders on March 26 to advance the globally harmonized retort to the continuing coronavirus pandemic.

According to Arab media reports, that King Salman and the caretaker of the two Holy Mosques Shah Salman (King Salman) will chair an essential summit of G20 leaders tomorrow to proceed with the globally harmonized rejoinder to the coronavirus outbreak.

The leaders of the G20 group, the heads of state of Jordan, Spain, Singapore and Switzerland as well as UAE will also partake in the meeting.

G20 finance ministers and central bankers decided during a separate video conference this week to develop an action strategy to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, which the International Monetary Fund likely will generate a worldwide recession.

G20 members will be joined by leaders from invited countries, Spain, Jordan, Singapore, and Switzerland, as well as international organizations; United Nations (UN), World Bank Group (WBG), the World Health Organization (WHO) and World Trade Organization (WTO), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Financial Stability Board (FSB), the International Labor Organization (ILO), International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Saudi Press Agency reported.

Regional organizations will be represented by Vietnam the Chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), South Africa the Chair of the African Union (AU), the United Arab Emirates the Chair of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and Rwanda the Chair of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), SPA added.