Russian President Vladimir Poutine According to the Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi He did not personally travel to Indonesia for the G20 summit in the fall. Indonesian President Joko Widodo, who is hosting the G20 meeting, made the remarks on Tuesday after the G7 summit in Bavaria, where Jokowi is sometimes present as a guest. “Widoto puts that aside and is there decisively. He (Putin) will not come.”

It is unclear whether the embattled leader intends to attend the G20 summit via video link. “Let’s see what happens,” Tragi said.

According to Russian state news agency TASS, Putin’s foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov said on Monday that Putin wanted to attend a summit on the Indonesian island of Bali in mid-November. Indonesian President Widodo confirmed Putin’s participation in late April. So the West’s response to this has been unclear lately.

The G20 is a group of major economic powers, which includes the G7 countries of Germany, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as Russia, China and Saudi Arabia. It has recently been debated whether the largest country in the world by region should be excluded from the G20 group because of Russia’s war against Ukraine.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz expects G7 heads of state and government to attend the G20 summit in Indonesia in November, despite Putin’s invitation. At the G7 summit at Schloss Elmau, there was “big agreement” that “we don’t want to split the G20,” host Scholz said at the end of Tuesday’s meeting. Looking ahead to today, the decision of the G7 leaders is “that they have to go”.

Scholes stressed that “we are working closely with two important friends and great countries”, with Indonesia holding the G20 presidency this year and India next year. “That’s why it’s important for us to properly motivate the subject.” Scholz said on Monday he wanted to decide whether or not to attend the G20 summit “shortly before departure” and would do so depending on the current situation.

In addition to the European Union, the G20 is made up of 19 industrialized and developing countries, including China, India, Brazil and Turkey. G20 countries account for 80% of global economic output, while G7 countries account for 31%. All G7 countries are members of the G20.

Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov commented on the possibility of meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the G20 summit, against a country he has been fighting for more than four months: “We really don’t care that he ( Zelensky) be hanged. on the sidelines of the Bali summit or not,” Lavrov said. Although Ukraine is not a member of the G20, Zelenskyj was invited by the Indonesian government.