European Union Foreign Policy Representative Josep Borrell confirmed that Russia’s exclusion from the G20 is incompatible with the principle of multilateralism, despite tensions between Russia and the European Union over the war in Ukraine. Science, “Resina Dialogue” In New Delhi, today, Friday: “You can’t talk about strengthening the principle of multilateral cooperation, and then demand Russia’s exclusion from the G-20, this is a huge contradiction, right?”
He also stressed the importance of “listening to others” when asked whether Russia’s membership in the G20 could be suspended and then continue to resolve current problems in the world.
In addition, Borrell felt that the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting yesterday, Thursday, was much better than the Bali summit in November 2022. He clarified by saying, “Because last year Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov came to Bali. , delivered his speech and then left, but this time he stayed and listened.”
Lavrov told his colleagues in New Delhi yesterday that Western ministers had disrupted the meeting in an attempt to blame Russia for their failures and undermined the Indian host’s efforts to reach an agreement on other issues.
Notably, the G-20 meeting ended Thursday without a joint statement, the second similar meeting of the bloc in recent weeks to fail to reach an agreement, after China joined Russia in objecting to the wording of the statement.
At the same time, the rest of the countries of the bloc issued a separate statement in which they called on Moscow to stop hostilities in Ukraine, urging it to “complete and unconditional withdrawal from Ukrainian lands.”
