Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the G20 leaders’ summit in Indonesia next week, Moscow’s embassy in Jakarta told AFP on Thursday.
JAKARTA, Indonesia – It was the first Russian confirmation that Putin will not travel to the resort island of Bali for the summit, which would have put him in the same room as US President Joe Biden for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine in February.
Another source with knowledge of Russia’s G20 planning confirmed that Putin would be replaced by Lavrov. Host Indonesia pursues a neutral foreign policy and has rebuffed Western calls to disinvite Russia from the summit. “The G20 cannot do much, so it will only be a symbolic forum. Their discussion is always stuck on the issue of war,” said Radityo Dharmaputra, a Russia and eastern Europe expert at Indonesia’s Airlangga University.
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