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Indonesia’s Joko Widodo to meet Vladimir Putin in Moscow on June 30: Russian report
- Visit may be linked to November’s G20 summit that Indonesia will host. Widodo has invited Putin, and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky to the conference
- Some G20 members have been trying to block Russia’s participation in the group following its military aggression in Ukraine.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo will visit Moscow for a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on June 30, according to Russia’s Tass news agency.
“This is going to be a very important visit” and the Russian government is “preparing for it now,” Tass said late on Tuesday in a dispatch from Moscow, quoting a Kremlin source.
The report did not provide details, but the visit may be linked to a Group of 20 summit that the Indonesian president, popularly known as Jokowi, will host in November on the resort island of Bali.
Indonesia has invited Putin, as well as Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky to the summit despite the war-hit Eastern European country not being a member of the G20. Both leaders have confirmed their attendance.
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When asked about the Tass report, the Indonesian presidential office said, “There has been no information about that.”
Some G20 members have been trying to block Russia’s participation in the group following its military aggression in Ukraine.
Of the G20 members, those belonging to the Group of Seven nations have imposed a slew of sanctions to isolate Russia from the global financial system, including freezing the assets of its central bank and excluding some major Russian lenders from a key international payment network.
In contrast, Brazil, China, India and South Africa, which along with Russia form the BRICS forum, have supported Moscow’s participation in G20 gatherings.
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