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Vladimir Putin y Xi Jinping
Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to attend the next G20 summit in Indonesia later this year and received a valuable endorsement from Beijing on Wednesday, in response to suggestions from some members that Russia might be excluded from the group. .
The United States and its Western allies are evaluating whether Russia should remain within the Group of Twenty major economies following its invasion of Ukrainesources involved in the discussions told Archyde.com.
However, any move to exclude Russia would likely be vetoed by other members of the group, raising the possibility of some countries skipping G-20 meetings, the sources said.
Russia’s ambassador to Indonesia, currently holding the rotating presidency of the G20, said Putin intends to travel to the Indonesian resort island of Bali for the November summit.
“It will depend on many, many things, including the COVID situation, which is improving. At the moment, his intention is… he wants to do it,” Ambassador Lyudmila Vorobieva told a news conference.
Asked regarding suggestions that Russia might be expelled from the G-20, she said it was a forum for discussing economic issues and not a crisis like the one in Ukraine.
“Of course the expulsion of Russia from this type of forum will not help solve these economic problems. On the contrary, without Russia it would be difficult to do so,” he noted.
China, which has not condemned the Russian invasion and has criticized Western sanctions, defended Moscow on Wednesday, calling Russia an “important member” of the G-20.
The G-20 is a group that needs to find answers to critical issues such as economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said.
“No member has the right to remove another country as a member. The G-20 must put real multilateralism into practice and strengthen unity and cooperation,” he declared at a press conference.
