German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stated the upcoming G20 summit in India stays necessary regardless of the absence of Russia and China, in an interview with German radio station Deutschlandfunk launched late on Friday.

The G20 nonetheless has an necessary contribution to make and a “big damn obligation” to fulfil, stated Scholz, significantly as BRICS – a grouping of the world economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – grows in significance.

Scholz, the chief of Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD), additionally stated nations with a colonial historical past had a duty to allow improvement in former colonies.

The chancellor supplied to assist former colonies exploit and course of their pure assets in what he referred to as “fair partnerships.”