Chinese and Russian leaders Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin will attend the G-20 summit on the resort island of Bali in November. a longtime adviser to the president said Friday.
Andy Wijajant, former chief cabinet secretary and unofficial adviser to President Joko Widodo, better known as Jokowi, told Reuters the two leaders would attend the summit. rice field.
"Mr Jokowi told me that Mr Xi Jinping and Mr Putin will attend Bali," Wijajant, director of the National Resilience Institute, told Reuters.
Widodo told Bloomberg on Thursday that he had received assurances from both leaders. Indonesian presidential officials did not respond to requests to confirm the report.
China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for comment. A Kremlin spokesperson declined to comment to Bloomberg, but another official familiar with the situation told the media outlet Putin was expected to attend.
This visit will be Xi Jinping's first outside of China since visiting Myanmar in January 2020.
US President Joe Biden is scheduled to attend his G20 summit, but the White House has not made clear whether he will meet Xi Jinping.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Chinese officials are reportedly planning a meeting between President Xi and Biden in Southeast Asia in November.
A spokesperson for the White House National Security Council reiterated that Mr. Biden doesn't think Mr. Putin should attend "because he is fighting Ukraine." But if Putin does, so should Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whom Indonesia has invited, the spokesman said.
As his G-20 presidency this year, Indonesia faces pressure from Western powers to launch a "special military operation" into Ukraine in what his country's government calls a "special military operation." Withdraws an invitation to President Putin about aggression.
Widodo has sought to establish his position as mediator between the Warring States. He has spent recent months meeting with both the Ukrainian and Russian presidents to call for an end to the war and to explore ways to alleviate the global food crisis.
He said both countries had accepted Indonesia as a "bridge for peace."
