BALI, Indonesia, Nov 15 At the photo ceremony after The G20 dinner was attended only by leaders or representatives of the countries of the informal association MIKTA, according to the general photo of the G20 leaders, there is no clarity yet, the correspondent reports. «.
As shown on the broadcast, South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol, Indonesian President Joko Widodo, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard took part in the group photo. The press center of the summit explained that «this is definitely not a group photo, it was a photo after lunch, and it was the leaders of the MIKTA countries.» At the same time, the interlocutors found it difficult to answer when a group photo of the leaders would take place and whether it would take place at all.
MIKTA format is an informal association of five countries: Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey and Australia, the so-called «middle powers».< br>
Other leaders of countries and international organizations attended the summit dinner itself, including British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, FIFA President Gianni Infantino.
At the same time, some G20 leaders or representatives of countries were absent from the dinner: including Argentine President Alberto Fernandez (it was previously reported that he became ill at the summit), American President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron. The head of the Russian delegation to the G20, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, was also absent — at this time he had a pre-scheduled meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.