US President Joe Biden and Chinese State Councilor Xi Jinping will not attend the G20 summit, where Kremlin war criminal Vladimir Putin will speak for the first time since 2021.
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Bloomberg reported this on November 22. The summit is scheduled to take place virtually on November 22.
Biden and Xi met in California in November, where they held hours of talks.
Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India who chairs the G20, announced the holding of a virtual summit back in September. In addition to the group member countries, nine guest countries and heads of 11 international organizations were invited to participate in it.
The virtual summit is meant to take stock of India’s current chairmanship of the group, which ends on November 30. Also during the event it is planned to discuss the implementation of decisions taken at the meeting in September.
Putin may not attend the next G20 summit. Brazil will preside over the G20 next year. The G20 summit is due to take place in November 2024, but there may be no way to attend it either.
During the group’s latest leadership meeting, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said the Russian president would not be arrested on an ISS warrant if he attended the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro next year.
However, after a few days, da Silva actually abandoned his preliminary statement.
I don’t know if Brazilian justice will apprehend him. This is decided by the judicial system, not the government,” he said.
In September 2023, Russia was represented by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the G20 summit in New Delhi. It became known in advance that the next summit would be virtual, but until now it was not clear who would participate on the Russian side.
Next week, Putin will also visit Minsk, where a “CSTO event” will take place. Then the head of state will receive the President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon in Moscow.
The Kremlin short man has limited his foreign visits after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for him in March on charges of illegally deporting children from the occupied territories of Ukraine. Therefore, he missed, in particular, the BRICS summit in August in South Africa and the G20 summit in New Delhi in September.
Putin himself previously stated that he refrained from traveling to the BRICS and G20 summits in order “not to create problems for the friends organizing them.”
Source: Racurs
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