the meeting of G20 Foreign Ministers ended in New Delhi, no joint statement could be reached due to disagreements over the war in Ukraine.
The Indian hosts found that the positions were very far apart and were unable to close the gap between the participating members.
Antony Blinken, US Secretary of State, insisted President Vladimir Putin could end the conflict tomorrow if he wanted to:
“All G20 members, and virtually all countries in general, continue to bear the cost of Russia’s war of aggression, a war that President Putin could end tomorrow if he so chooses.”
For his part, the Russian foreign minister said that Russia regards any attempt to end the conflict as “sincere”:
“As for help to solve the crisis, we have repeatedly said publicly that we will never reject serious proposals made out of a sincere desire to find a political solution,” Sergey Lavrov said.
In Switzerland, western participants are taking part in the Geneva Disarmament Conference They dropped a speech by Lavrov’s number two.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov stressed that Vladimir Putin’s decision to suspend the New START treaty, the last remaining nuclear weapons pact with the United States, was in response to US policy towards Ukraine.