White House building in Washington DC, USA. File photoWASHINGTON, Apr 6 The US has no plans to boycott the G20 summit, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said. «Seven months to go — a lifetime, but it was not a manifestation of our desire to boycott or not attend. Speech was that it was impossible to conduct business as usual,» Psaki said at a briefing. So she commented on the corresponding statement by the head of the US Treasury, Janet Yellen, at a hearing in the relevant committee of the House of Representatives. «As she (Yellen) later explained, it was at the ministerial level,» Psaki added. Yellen previously said she «made it clear to colleagues in Indonesia» that the US would not participate «in a number of meetings if Russia was present.» United States Joe Biden said earlier that he was in favor of Russia's exclusion from the G20, at the same time he pointed out that a number of countries did not agree with this. At the same time, the official representative of the UN Secretary General, Stephane Dujarric, commenting on calls to exclude the Russian Federation from the G20, said that the decision on whether or not to exclude Russia from the G20 is the responsibility of the G20 itself.
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