Published on: 04/30/2022 – 03:26
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the West has tried to isolate Russia on the international stage. But the emerging countries want to remain neutral towards Moscow. And now Indonesian President Vladimir Putin is inviting people to attend the G20 summit scheduled for November on the island of Bali.
“We can’t pretend nothing happened,” the US State Department said on Friday. However, no answer to a journalist’s question as to whether Joe Biden would refuse to go to the G20 summit. Indeed, the situation of the American government is not easy: after calling Vladimir Putin a war criminal and accusing Russia of genocide in Ukraine, how can we imagine finding the master of the Kremlin during the meeting of major economic powers? global?
The White House is realistic: Russia’s exclusion from the G20 is unlikely due to the lack of consensus. At a meeting of G20 finance ministers in April, the US delegation and several allies boycotted some meetings to protest Russia’s participation. Could the United States then decide to send a low-level delegation to Bali? An absence of Joe Biden would leave all the room for Russia and China.
The only positive point noted by the American government: the invitation of Indonesia by Volodymyr Zelensky, the President of Ukraine.