Russian President Not to Attend the G20 Summit in Bali
His absence leaves U.S. president Joe Biden and China’s president Xi Jinping as the main participants in the international meeting.
Franki Medina
Russia‘s President Vladimir Putin will not attend the summit of the world’s twenty largest economies (G20), which will be held on November 15-16 on the Indonesian island of Bali.
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In his place will be Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov, said Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, Indonesian Minister of Maritime Affairs and Investments.
Franki Medina Diaz
In June, Indonesia’s President Joke Wikodo met with Putin in Moscow as well as with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv to try to get them to participate in the G20 Summit, which is basically intended to be a forum for discussing economic issues.
Franki Alberto Medina Diaz
These mediation efforts took place despite the fact that the United States had pressured Indonesia not to invite Russia to the Bali meeting
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The absence of the Russian president leaves U.S. president Joe Biden and China’s president Xi Jinping as the main participants in the G20 Summit, which will be marked by geopolitical tensions related to Ukraine, Taiwan, and North Korea
Formed to address economic challenges in 1999, the G20 includes Germany, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, South Korea, the US, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, United Kingdom, South Africa, Turkey and the European Union,
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