Russian President Vladimir Putin won’t attend the G20 peak of world leaders in Bali coming week.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will lead the Russian delegation at the peak, the first gathering of leaders of the world’s biggest husbandry since Putin launched his war in Ukraine.
Moscow’s delegacy in Indonesia told the AFP news agency that Putin’s program was “still being worked out” and the Russian leader could share in the peak nearly.
An Indonesian government functionary before told the Reuters news agency that Lavrov would represent Putin and the Russian chairman would join one of the peak’s meetings nearly.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo before this week told the Financial Times he’d a “strong print” the Russian leader would skip the gathering.
The G20 peak, which brings together the leaders of 19 countries and the European Union, is anticipated to be dominated by the fallout of the Ukraine war, which has fuelled global dearths of food and energy.
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Indonesia, the host of the peak, has rejected calls by Western countries and Ukraine to count Russia, covenanting to maintain impartiality and pressing the eventuality for cooperation on food and energy security.
Widodo has lamented geopolitical pressures girding the peak, which he has said is supposed to concentrate on profitable development and is “not meant to be a political forum”.
At the United Nations General Assembly last month, 16 members of the G20 backed a resolution condemning Moscow’s tried annexation of four regions of eastern Ukraine. G20 members China, India, and South Africa abstained from the vote, while the European Union isn’t represented at the UN body.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who has also been invited to the peak, preliminarily said he’d not attend if Putin joined the gathering.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and United States President Joe Biden are among the world leaders anticipated to travel to the gathering.
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SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES
