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View all search resultsNot 'business as usual' for G20 foreign ministers meeting in Bali
The Group of 20 includes Western countries that have accused Moscow of war crimes in Ukraine and rolled out sanctions, but also countries like China, Indonesia, India and South Africa that have not followed suit.
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Side by side: President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin head for a joint press conference at Kremlin in Moscow on June 30, 2022.
(Presidential Secretariat Press Bureau/Laily Rachev)
G20 foreign ministers travel to the resort island of Bali this week for a meeting that will be overshadowed by the war in Ukraine, with Russia's attendance creating rifts in the bloc as host Indonesia tries to mediate.
The Group of 20 includes Western countries that have accused Moscow of war crimes in Ukraine and rolled out sanctions, but also countries like China, Indonesia, India and South Africa that have not followed suit.
The gathering will be the first time that foreign ministers from some of the world's top economies meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov since Russia invaded Ukraine in February.
Speaking ahead of the G20 meeting that runs from Thursday to Friday, German foreign ministry spokesperson Christian Wagner said it would not be a "normal summit" nor "business as usual".
Germany holds the presidency of the Group of Seven industrialised nations and would coordinate in Bali over how to respond to Lavrov in light of the war in Ukraine, he said.
Top officials from Britain, Canada and the United States walked out on Russian representatives during a G20 finance meeting in Washington in April.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken would be an active participant at the meeting while "also staying true to another over-riding objective, and that is the fact that it cannot be business as usual with the Russian Federation", a US state department spokesperson said.
