RUSSIA, WEST CLASH
Brazilian International Minister Mauro Vieira mentioned “numerous nations” on the G20 assembly had additionally reiterated their condemnation of Russia’s struggle in Ukraine.
However there was little signal of diplomatic progress.
Russia’s Lavrov lashed out on the West for its criticism following the dying of opposition chief Alexei Navalny in jail Friday.
“They (the West) act like prosecutor, accuser, decide and executioner – multi functional. This hysteria over Navalny’s dying has proven this convincingly,” he instructed journalists.
“These individuals haven’t any proper to intervene in our inner affairs.”
He mentioned he had had no contact with Western officers. His final assembly with Blinken was a tense encounter on the sidelines of a G20 gathering in India in March 2023.
Regardless of a push by Western nations to sentence the invasion, the G20’s final summit ended with a watered-down assertion denouncing the usage of power however not explicitly naming Russia, which maintains pleasant ties with India and Brazil, amongst different members.
Lavrov “introduced a set of other information about what occurred in Ukraine earlier than their invasion, with a view to justify” it, Norwegian International Minister Espen Barth Eide, who was invited to the assembly as an observer, instructed journalists.
It was the primary high-level assembly of the yr for the G20, which can maintain its annual leaders’ summit in Rio in November.
