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For: EFE Updated 29 Apr 2022, 9: 46 am EDT
The President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, confirmed that he has invited the President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelensky, to the summit of leaders of the G20 to be held next November on the island of Bali and to which his Russian counterpart also plans to attend Vladimir Putin.
“In a conversation yesterday I invited President Zelensky to attend the G20“, said Widodo, during a speech after Zelensky himself had affirmed the day before that he had received the invitation.
Widodo also revealed that Vladimir Putin thanked him for the invitation that he has received as president of a member country of the G20 and that he confirmed his attendance at the summit that or The Asian country wins the days and 16 of November.
The The Indonesian leader, who said he had spoken the day before with both Zelensky and Putin, declared that they discussed the requests for arms aid by the Ukrainian leader, but stressed that the Indonesian Constitution and its foreign policy principles “prohibit arms aid to other countries”.
“However, I declared the readiness of Indonesia to deliver humanitarian assistance“He added. Widodo, who insisted on the need for a negotiated solution to the conflict in Ukraine, also stated that “Indonesia is prepared to contribute to the peace effort “.
Despite the pressure received from countries such as the United States, Canada and Australia for Putin to be vetoed at the summit that brings together the 15 largest economies in the world, Indonesia has so far maintained the invitation to the Russian president.
Financial Officers from the European Union (EU), the United States, France and Canada, among other countries, left last week a meeting of the G20 protesting the presence of Russia and its invasion of Ukraine in Washington.
The representatives left the meeting that was held in a hybrid format in the US capital just c hen Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov began to speak.
Russia was already expelled last decade from the group of industrialized economies then known as the G8, which was renamed G7, after its invasion of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea in 1200. EFE
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