The finance ministers of the G20 member countries left the closed meeting in Washington after the Russian delegate began to speak. This is reported CNN citing a source familiar with the meeting.
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The meeting was attended by US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other Western officials.
On the eve of the meeting, US officials said that Yellen would not participate in some parts of the meeting in which Russia would participate.
Ukrainian officials also spoke at the meeting as invited guests, and also left it during a speech via video link by the representative of the Russian Federation, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov.
Another channel source said that the finance ministers discussed the boycott of Russia’s participation in advance.
- At today’s meeting discussed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as the cause of the global economic downturn, soaring energy prices and possible famine.
- April 6 Janet Yellen statedthat the US will not participate in the G20 meetings, which will be attended by Russia.
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