Putin May Visit India For G20 in 2023

Russian President Vladimir Putin may attend the G-20 summit in India in September, but on Monday. It cannot be ruled out, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said when asked if Putin’s participation in the summit in India in September was being considered.

The Russian delegation at the G20 leaders forum in Bali, Indonesia last year was headed by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

In 2020 and 2021 Putin attended the G20 summits via video link. The G20 Leaders Summit is scheduled to be held on September 9 and 10 in New Delhi.

The members represent around 85 per cent of the global GDP, over 75 per cent of the global trade, and about two-thirds of the world population. The grouping comprises Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the UK, the US and the European Union EU.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, Germany’s Annalena Baerbock and British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly also attended the meeting. During a press conference on the sidelines of the meeting,

Lavrov hailed India’s highly responsible and worthy of a great power stance on key matters on the global agenda.

The G20 foreign ministers meeting was unable to come out with a joint communique due to bitterly increasing rift between the US-led Western powers and Russia over the Ukraine conflict.