Why Russian President won’t attend G20 Summit?
The Group of 20 summit will be held in Bali next week without the presence of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Russian embassy in Indonesia informed CNN on Thursday. Sergey Lavrov, the foreign minister of Russia, will represent Putin, according to Yulia Tomskaya, the embassy’s chief of protocol.
Putin is still determining if he will participate electronically in one of the meetings, according to Tomskaya. Being confronted or shunned by other world leaders for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is avoided by Putin by opting not to personally attend the G20 summit.
Western nations and Ukraine put pressure on Indonesia, the G20 host, in the run-up to the event to intensify its denunciations of Moscow and revoke its invitation to Putin for the meeting.
Russian participation in the G20 should end, according to US Vice President Joe Biden, who is present at the summit. His administration’s top officials have left G20 meetings while Russian delegates are present.
Jakarta, though, has resisted the pressure and tried to maintain its impartiality. Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, has been invited as a guest to the conference.
According to Zelensky, Ukraine won’t attend the G20 summit if Putin does. He’s supposed to participate online in the sessions.
Xi Jinping, the leader of China, is anticipated to attend the summit and will likely meet Biden for the first time since the American President took office almost two years ago. Xi and Putin previously met in Uzbekistan in September.
Xi’s participation in the summit and meeting with Biden have not been officially confirmed by Beijing. However, after the midterm elections, Biden announced at a White House press conference that he would be meeting with Xi in Bali.
They will talk about trade and the economy, according to Biden, who stated that he won’t be making any “basic concessions.” He would not, however, say what his position would be about US military assistance for Taiwan in the event that China invaded the sovereign island.
Biden continued, “I’m going to have that talk with him,” saying they’ll discuss “what each of our red lines are.”
Their highly anticipated meeting will take place as US-China relations reach their lowest point in decades as the two nations intensify their competition in trade, technology, geopolitics, and ideology. The downward spiral in relations began under Donald Trump’s former presidency.
Why Russian President won’t attend G20 Summit?
Following US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan and the Biden administration’s prohibition on the sale of sophisticated semiconductors and chip-making equipment to China, tensions have recently reached new highs.
