Bloomberg The President Vladimir Putin wants to attend the G20 summit organized by Indonesia in the fourth quarter, said Russia’s envoy to the Southeast Asian countrydownplaying talk of his expulsion over the war in Ukraine.
Russia appreciates Indonesia’s resistance to pressure to divert the G20’s focus from economic recovery, the ambassador said Lyudmila Vorobyeva at a briefing in Jakarta on Wednesday.
Your ad has been created a day after Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for a discussion on whether Russia should be excluded from the grouping of major economies while the West strives to make Putin and his government international pariahs in response to his invasion of Ukraine. But, China said it supports Russia’s membership in the G20 and said the bloc must work together on issues ranging from global economic growth to recovery from the pandemic.
“Russia is an important member” from the group, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Wednesday, at a regular press conference in Beijing. “No member has the right to eliminate other countries.”
Poland raised the idea of replacing Russia in the G20 at meetings last week with the US Secretary of Commerce, Gina Raimondosaid Development Minister Piotr Nowak.
The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov hinted on Wednesday that the US is behind the pressure Exclude Russia from the organization.
“The G20 is a multilateral format, there are different viewpoints Peskov said in a conference call with journalists. “It is clear that Americans will continue to put pressure on various countries, but as we can see, several states still prefer to maintain their independent and sovereign stance.”
Russia was excluded from the group of eight industrialized countries in 2014 after the annexation of Crimea of Ukraine by Putin and Permanently left the intergovernmental organization in 2017. The G20 is a larger group that also includes developing countries.
This article was translated by Miriam Salazar