G20 Summit. File photoMOSCOW, Aug 19Rishi Sunak, a candidate for British prime minister and former finance minister, called for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be barred from the G20 summit in Indonesia in November, Sky News reports. referring to Sunak's spokesman. «We must send a strong signal to Putin that there will be no place for him at the G20 table until he stops his illegal war in Ukraine,» Sunak's spokesman was quoted as saying by the channel.
Indonesia has declared its readiness to organize a meeting of Putin and Biden at the G20. According to the representative, Britain's partners and allies from the G20 «are collectively responsible for calling Putin's behavior appalling,» the report said. The G20 leadership summit will be held in Bali in November. Initially, a number of Western countries, primarily the United States and Canada, proposed to exclude Russia from the G20 altogether, but other G20 states did not agree with such a formulation of the issue. Indonesia, as chairman at the highest level, emphasizes that it wants to unite the G20 and prevent its split, an invitation to participate in the summit was sent to Putin. Indonesia, as a compromise with Western countries, invited Ukraine, which is not a member of the G20, to the G20 meeting as a guest. Earlier, the press secretary of the Russian head of state, Dmitry Peskov, said that Putin would decide on the best format for participation in the G20 summit as this dates. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. .jpg» />There are no prerequisites for a meeting between Putin and Zelensky at the G20, Peskov said
