Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend the Group of 20 event in November, according to Indonesia’s president, as White House officials publicly expressed reservations about the matter.
“Last night at 7, I spoke on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin,” Indonesian President Joko Widodo said in a statement Friday. “President Putin expressed his gratitude for the invitation to the G20 summit and he said he would attend.”
The Russian government has not publicly responded to Widodo’s statement. Russia is a member of the G20, which unites the world’s top economies.
“I have invited [Ukraine] President [Volodymyr] Zelenskyy to attend the G20 summit,” the Indonesian president also said in a statement. Widodo said that he spoke to both Zelenskyy and Putin this week in separate phone calls, saying that he told the Russian president to immediately end its 2-month-long invasion of Ukraine.
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