From the central topic “Current Challenges of Development: Role of Science, Technology, and Innovation,” the meeting points to high-priority issues for the nations that are part of the bloc.

Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel, as president pro tempore of the multilateral mechanism, invited world leaders on Wednesday to focus on changing the socio-economic and scientific-technical marginalization scenario that affects many nations, especially in the South.

The diagnoses on the matter seem increasingly clear that the scientific and technical progress, which is fundamental for the achievment of sustainable development, is inaccessible to a great part of humanity, Díaz-Canel said.

Founded in 1964 within the Non-Aligned Movement, the G-77 faces enormous challenges in developing its nations, representing 80 percent of the world’s population and more than two-thirds of the United Nations membership.

Cuba, leading the group, will have to overcome the complex panorama of the international crisis, aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic, the global military and socio-political conflicts, the deficit of raw materials and consumer goods, and a rise in food prices.

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