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Reuters
Kate Lamb and David Brunnstrom
The G20 foreign minister will travel to Bali on a resort island this week to attend a meeting that casts a shadow over the war in Ukraine. Block rift when host Indonesia tries to mediate. The
20 groups include not only Western countries that have accused Moscow of war crimes in Ukraine and have taken sanctions, but also countries that did not comply, such as China, Indonesia, India and South Africa. It will be.
This rally is the first time that some foreign ministers of the world's top economies have met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov since Russia invaded Ukraine in February.
Prior to the G20 meeting from Thursday to Friday, German Foreign Ministry spokesman Christian Wagner said he was neither a "normal summit" nor a "normal business". Said. Germany chairs a group of seven industrialized nations and will coordinate in Bali how to respond to Lavrov in the light of the war in Ukraine, he said.
UK, Canadian and US officials visited Russian representatives at the G20 Finance Conference in Washington in April.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken "remains loyal to another top priority, the fact that it cannot be a normal deal with the Russian Federation," while the meeting. Will actively participate in. A US State Department spokesman said.
Blinken will meet with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Bali, but no talks with Lavrov are scheduled.
As the G20 Presidency this year, Indonesia was caught in the midst of a geopolitical storm over the war and attempted to thwart the threat of Western nations boycotting the conference. After the Foreign Ministers' Meeting, the G20 Finance Ministers will meet again next week in Bali.
President Joko Widodo embarked on an ambitious peace-breaking mission last week in an attempt to harness Indonesia's neutrality to meet Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russia's President Vladimir Putin. I visited Kieu and Moscow.
The president, widely known as Jokowi, invited Ukraine to the G20 this year in an attempt to convince Russia to end the blockade of grain exports that are causing the global food crisis, nationwide Indonesia. "Bridge of diplomacy" between.
Ukraine's Indonesian ambassador, Vasil Hamianin, said his foreign minister would give a virtual speech at the Bali conference.
Plan to revisit the G20 conference
Despite the initial discussions of snubbing several G20 conferences, Western leaders eventually floored to Russia. It was decided that it would be counterproductive to give up, said Max Bergman of Russia. A European expert and former US State Department official.
"If you don't show up, and if the Russians have floors with some really important countries like Indonesia, India and others, they won't object to their argument "I'm doing it," Bergman said. I am currently at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
US Under Secretary of State Ramin Truy said Tuesday that food and energy will be prominent at the meeting.
"G20 countries should blame Russia and insist on supporting continued UN efforts to reopen sea lanes for grain delivery. "He said.
During a trip to Vietnam on Wednesday, Lavrov of Russia called on all parties in the world to make efforts to protect international law, saying that "the world is evolving in a complex way". I did.
The reaction to Lavrov in Bali could show how G20 members would react if Putin attended the group summit in November, but this is still the case. Not confirmed.
The President of Indonesia, who was not very active in foreign policy issues until recently, has come to see the treatment of the group's presidency as a decisive moment in the presidency, CSIS's Southeast Asian specialty. The house, Murray Heebert, said.
"If Putin appears in November, Jokowi desperately wants to avoid a diplomatic train accident," he said. (Reported by Alexander Ratz in Berlin, David Brunnstrom in Washington, Kate Lamb in Sydney, edited by Ed Davies and Raju Gopalakrishnan)