The industrialized countries demand that Moscow stop the war and Lavrov accuses them of meeting only to insult Russia, attending a meeting with the United States where they have preferred to avoid the traditional family photo
The G20 meeting in Bali will go down in the history of major international events as an example of disagreement versus understanding. Not only from a political and ideological point of view, but also from a physical point of view. A completely predictable circumstance in the first high-level meeting since the start of the war in Ukraine in which Western foreign ministers participated, as well as their Russian counterpart. In the background the boycott of Moscow contemplated in international sanctions and speeches that some and others did not want to hear, which translated into authentic strategies of not treating each other, listening to each other and finally going home without the traditional family photo.
The world’s 20 major industrial and emerging powers, the G20, demanded on Friday that Russia end the war. They did so in a conference room where the offensive against Ukraine has created strong solidarity and irreconcilable enmity. The meeting of foreign ministers helped Moscow break the cordon sanitaire of the international community. For the first time, it was necessary to admit a Kremlin official, Sergei Lavrov, into a gathering of this magnitude, against the isolation imposed by Western rulers. The express desire of the President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, to find avenues for dialogue and peace to resolve a conflict whose repercussions are global has triumphed. Widodo has even invited his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, and Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky to attend the G20 leaders’ meeting scheduled for November.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Secretary of State Sergei Lavrov have gathered at the forum. They had not seen each other for days before the invasion of Ukraine and on those occasions they negotiated that the war would not start. “What we’ve heard today is a great chorus from around the world, not just the United States, about the need to end the aggression,” Blinken told reporters. The meeting actually started with a call from the Indonesian authorities to end the conflict in order to end the tragedy on Ukrainian soil and the energy and food crisis around the world. “Our responsibility is to end the war sooner rather than later and resolve our differences at the negotiating table, not on the battlefield,” said Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi. Lavrov unperturbedly attended his speech. Marsudi recalled that, “as always”, the civilian population and “poor and developing countries are the most affected”.
The meeting led to several talks between foreign ministers. Blinken, as the White House had expected, avoided a meeting with his Russian counterpart, but did meet with ministers from France and Germany. He also spoke to a representative of the British government, whose head of diplomacy had to remain in London due to the crisis the cabinet is experiencing which has led to Boris Johnson’s resignation from the Conservative Party leadership and, within three months, as prime minister. . Blinken has made it clear to his interlocutors that the war in Ukraine is “unjustifiable and unprovoked”, and has blamed Moscow for energy inflation and the threat of famine. “To our Russian colleagues: Ukraine is not your country. Your pimple is not your pimple Why are they blocking the gates? They’ve got to let the grain out,” Blinken exclaimed.
The distance from Lavrov could not have been greater. “It was not us who gave up the contacts, it was the United States,” he said, after assuring that Russia will not take the initiative to approach the White House this time. “We’re not going to run after anyone to suggest meetings.” Russia’s foreign minister called the direction the G20 meeting “mad” and shamed his Western colleagues who “used” it to anger Moscow rather than address the “global economy’s problems”. to grab. “During the discussion, Western partners avoided following the G20’s (agenda) mandate to tackle problems of the global economy” and “almost immediately deviated into misleading criticism of the Russian Federation. ‘Agressors’, ‘invaders’, ‘occupiers’, we have heard many things today,” warned Lavrov, who was absent when Ukrainian minister Dmytro Kuleba (via video conference) and his German counterpart, Annalena Baerbock, spoke. Lavrov also did not want to be present at Blinken’s sentencing of the Russian attitude The organization has announced that there will be no family photo of all ministers on this occasion.
The eventful G20 diplomatic summit included a statement from the European Union blaming Vladimir Putin for the consequences of the war. It is in the hands of the Russian president to end a “pointless” conflict and prevent a “food and energy catastrophe”, said EU High Representative for Foreign Policy Josep Borrell: “A rapid response to many of these problems is still in the hands of one man: President Putin,” the diplomat said, before stressing the need to solve the grain blockade in Ukrainian ports. Lavrov has replied to Borrell that Moscow is prepared is to sit down with Ukraine and Turkey to deal with the export of the grain, although there is no specific date.
Source: La Verdad
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