He emphasized Moscow’s readiness to participate in this format, but noted that most of its participants are waging an economic war against Russia. Peskov announced the need to build “new vectors of relations”
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Russia is ready to participate in the G20, this format is important, but if it is excluded, “nothing fatal will happen,” said presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov. “RIA News”. Most of the G20 participants, on their own initiative, are in a state of economic war with Russia, the Kremlin spokesman explained.
“Obviously, in the conditions of violation of all and all the rules of both the WTO and international law, of course, it is necessary to build new vectors in all areas, new vectors of relations. What are we going to do,” he said.
Earlier, Peskov had already commented on the idea of excluding Russia from the G20. He said that the United States is exerting “undisguised and little diplomatic” pressure on other countries. In response to a question about whether President Vladimir Putin is going to participate in the next G20 summit at the end of the year in Indonesia, the spokesman replied that it was too early to talk about this. In the last summit, the president participated via video link.
Peskov announced US pressure on countries after the idea to exclude Russia from the G20
The Polish authorities proposed to exclude Russia from the G20 during a series of meetings, including with US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo. According to the Minister of Development and Technology of the Republic, Petr Novak, the proposal received a positive response and will be passed on to US President Joe Biden. Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan declined to answer a question about the prospect of Russia being excluded from the format, but said that Russia, in his opinion, can no longer participate in international institutions and the international community as usual.