{"id":160000,"date":"2022-07-08T11:10:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T11:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=160000"},"modified":"2022-07-08T11:10:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T11:10:16","slug":"russias-foreign-minister-storms-out-of-talks-with-g20-diplomats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/russias-foreign-minister-storms-out-of-talks-with-g20-diplomats\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia&apos;s Foreign Minister STORMS OUT of talks with G20 diplomats"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Russia&#8217;s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov STORMS OUT of talks with G20 diplomats after Western powers criticised Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Russia&#8217;s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stormed out of meeting with G20 leaders<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Lavrov faced a barrage of Western criticism for invasion of Ukraine at meeting\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lavrov walked out of a morning session as German counterpart Annalena Baerbock criticised Moscow over its invasion, diplomats said<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s top diplomat stormed out of talks with G20 foreign ministers meeting in Indonesia on Friday as Western powers criticised Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Washington and allies condemned Russia&#8217;s assault ahead of the meeting before Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov faced what US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called a barrage of Western criticism at the closed-door talks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What we&#8217;ve heard today already is a strong chorus from around the world&#8230; about the need for the aggression to end,&#8217; Blinken said from the meeting on the resort island of Bali.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken and Lavrov had joined colleagues for day-long talks in their first meeting since the outbreak of war, with the host immediately telling them the conflict must end through negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>But Lavrov walked out of a morning session as German counterpart Annalena Baerbock criticised Moscow over its invasion, diplomats said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/07\/08\/11\/60031549-10994617-image-a-83_1657274587855.jpg\" height=\"420\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attends the G20 Foreign Ministers&#8217; Meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali, before storming out on Friday<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/07\/08\/11\/60031553-10994617-image-a-84_1657274606528.jpg\" height=\"424\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Indonesia&#8217;s Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi (R) greets Russia&#8217;s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Foreign Ministers&#8217; Meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali, on Friday<\/p>\n<p>Baerbock criticized Moscow for blocking\u00a0dialogue with international partners after Lavrov walked out of her speech.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to German television from the G20 gathering in Bali, Baerbock said Lavrov &#8216;left the first session halfway through&#8217; and skipped a second session &#8216;which shows even more clearly that he&#8217;s not interested in international cooperation or dialogue with the other G19 partners&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Lavrov later also ditched an afternoon session before a virtual appearance by Ukraine&#8217;s foreign minister\u00a0Dmytro Kuleba and was not present as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned Russia in the closed-door meeting in Bali, diplomats said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It underscores that the Russian government is not showing a millimetre of willingness to talk, particularly on the important question of how we will grapple with the global food crisis,&#8217; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Baerbock said although the remaining 19 countries had differing views on &#8216;Russia&#8217;s war of aggression&#8217;, they were &#8216;very clear in appealing to Russia that this war must end&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The majority of the countries made clear that Russia has the responsibility to immediately stop the bombing,&#8217; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Lavrov told reporters outside the Mulia hotel:\u00a0&#8216;Our Western partners are trying to avoid talking about global economic issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;From the moment they speak, they launch into fevered criticism of Russia.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/07\/08\/11\/60031947-10994617-image-a-87_1657274745046.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>US State Secretary Antony Blinken (pictured on Friday) shunned a meeting with Lavrov and instead accused Russia of triggering a global food crisis, demanding Moscow allow grain shipments out of war-battered Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/07\/08\/11\/60031695-10994617-image-a-85_1657274643811.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Rescue workers clearing rubble of a destroyed school after an attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Monday<\/p>\n<p>Blinken shunned a meeting with Lavrov and instead accused Russia of triggering a global food crisis, demanding Moscow allow grain shipments out of war-battered Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;To our Russian colleagues: Ukraine is not your country. Its grain is not your grain. Why are you blocking the ports? You should let the grain out,&#8217; Blinken said in the closed-door talks, according to a Western official present.<\/p>\n<p>Lavrov earlier told reporters he would not &#8216;go running&#8217; after Washington for talks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It was not us who abandoned contact, it was the United States,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Before the meeting, Blinken met his French and German counterparts and a senior British official to discuss &#8216;Russia&#8217;s unprovoked and unjustifiable war of choice&#8217; in Ukraine, the State Department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>But the gathering was soon overshadowed by the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a campaign event on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>After the shooting, Blinken voiced alarm over the attack on a longtime ally of Washington and Japan&#8217;s longest-serving premier, calling it a &#8216;very sad moment&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Before the news of the attack emerged, Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi addressed the Ukraine war in a speech to the ministers including Lavrov.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It is our responsibility to end the war sooner than later and settle our differences at the negotiating table, not the battlefield,&#8217; Marsudi said.<\/p>\n<p>A US official indicated Washington did not want to embarrass Indonesia at the meeting by walking out on Lavrov.<\/p>\n<p>But there will be no family photo of the G20 ministers as is customary, an Indonesian government official told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts have addressed US concerns about Lavrov attending in part by inviting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the G20 summit in November.<\/p>\n<p>In his address, Kuleba told ministers to &#8216;remember about 344 families who have lost their children when listening to Russian lies&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/07\/08\/11\/60031807-10994617-image-a-86_1657274660780.jpg\" height=\"447\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Local residents look on as smoke rises after shelling during Ukraine-Russia conflict in Donetsk, Ukraine, on Thursday<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The minister of the country responsible for their deaths appears in front of you today to share his thoughts on how Russia views cooperation in our globalised world,&#8217; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken arrived at the Mulia hotel on Friday where he could be seen talking with South Africa&#8217;s foreign minister before entering the same room as Lavrov, who he last met in January.<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s top diplomat was seated between the Saudi Arabian and Mexican foreign ministers as the meeting began.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken&#8217;s efforts to have a powerful Western stance against Russia at the meeting were diluted after British Foreign Minister Liz Truss pulled out following Prime Minister Boris Johnson&#8217;s resignation as leader of his party on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>She flew out of Indonesia on Friday morning and was replaced by former British ambassador to the European Union Sir Tim Barrow, a British official told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>While in Bali, Blinken will also seek to reopen dialogue with Beijing in talks on Saturday with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, the first in months after tensions became strained over issues including Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting comes as US President Joe Biden voices hope for a conversation in the coming weeks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, with whom he last spoke in March.<\/p>\n<p>Lavrov met Wang on Thursday to discuss Russia&#8217;s invasion, which Moscow says it launched to stop Ukraine from joining the NATO military alliance.<\/p>\n<p>The United States has condemned Beijing&#8217;s support for Russia, and Blinken is expected to reiterate those warnings in talks with Wang.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10994617\/Russias-Foreign-Minister-Sergei-Lavrov-STORMS-talks-G20-diplomats-criticism-war.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov STORMS OUT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":159999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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