Details of the Russian president’s participation in the high-profile gathering are still being worked out, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said
Russian President Vladimir Putin has no plans to attend next month’s meeting of G20 leaders in India in person, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. The exact format of the Russian leader’s participation has yet to be decided, Peskov told journalists on Friday.
The summit in New Delhi is scheduled for September 9-10 and will be the pinnacle of India’s leadership of the club of leading world economies. New Delhi assumed the rotating presidency from Indonesia last December.
This week, Putin participated via video link in the summit of BRICS leaders in Johannesburg, after declining to travel to South Africa. The host nation had invited the Russian president, although his potential arrival would have placed South Africa in a difficult position due to its commitments to the International Criminal Court…
