American government official and 71th U.S. Secretary of State - 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.
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". U.S. 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 U.S. state department spokesperson said.As G20 chair this year, Indonesia has been caught at the centre of a geopolitical storm over the war, attempting to head off threats by Western countries to boycott meetings.
"If you don't show up, and then the Russians have the floor with some really critical countries like Indonesia, India, and others, then they're making their arguments unopposed," said Bergmann, who is now at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies. During a trip to Vietnam on Wednesday, Russia's Lavrov called on all parties in the world to make efforts to protect international laws as "the world is evolving in a complicated manner."
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