Putin to attend G20 summit, Indonesia says; Zelenskyy also invited

Russian President Vladimir Putin informed Indonesian President Joko Widodo that he’ll attend this 12 months’s Group of 20 summit in Bali, Indonesia introduced Friday.

“Final evening at 7, I spoke on the telephone with Russian President Vladimir Putin,” Widodo stated in a press release. “President Putin expressed his gratitude for the invitation to the G20 summit and he stated he would attend.”

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The Indonesian president stated he spoke with Putin in regards to the significance of reaching a peace settlement with Ukrainian management and ending the warfare instantly.

The southeast Asian nation stated it was prepared to supply humanitarian assist and help with the peace course of in any manner that it may well. 

Putin’s invitation to the intergovernmental summit scheduled for November 20 seems to have come sooner or later after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s, although Ukraine shouldn’t be part of the G-20. 

Zelenskyy took to Twitter Wednesday to share that he and Widodo spoke. 

The pair reportedly mentioned meals safety points – which officers have repeatedly warned shall be a world downside aggravated by Putin’s warfare in Ukraine. 

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Zelenskyy additionally stated he thanked Indonesia for its assist of Ukraine’s “sovereignty and territorial integrity, specifically for a transparent place within the UN.”

Widodo stated his nation is constitutionally barred from offering arms to a overseas nation, however Indonesia has made clear its place on Russia’s lethal invasion and voted alongside 140 different nations on the UN Common Meeting to demand Putin withdraw his troops. 

Although Indonesia, together with 23 different nations, abstained from a second vote earlier this month that suspended Russia’s membership within the UN Human Rights Council.

Zelenskyy thanked Widodo for inviting him to the G20 summit however has not confirmed whether or not he’ll attend. 

On this photograph supplied by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Workplace, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy listens throughout his assembly with President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, April 1, 2022. 
((Ukrainian Presidential Press Workplace by way of AP))

G20 summit of leaders from the world’s largest economies, together with the U.S., EU, Japan, India, Saudi Arabia and China, are set to debate points regarding world well being, elevated digitalization of the worldwide economic system, local weather change and power safety – a problem that has taken on renewed urgency amid Russia’s warfare in Ukraine.

White Home press secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday stated that President Biden welcomed Zelenskyy’s invitation however stated his place on Moscow was clear. 

“The President has been clear about his view: This shouldn’t be enterprise as ordinary, and that Russia shouldn’t be part of this,” she stated.