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Russia will be invited to the US-hosted Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings next year, a US official said on Monday.
Matt Murray, a senior US official at APEC, said that as the “good manager of APEC”, the US would invite Russia, a member of the 21-nation bloc.
Relations between Washington and Moscow have deteriorated to their worst point in 60 years since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, an act the country justified as a “special military operation”, but has since causing Western countries as well as Singapore to punish and condemn.
At an APEC meeting hosted by Thailand in May, representatives of the United States and several other countries walked out of the meeting to protest Russia’s actions in Ukraine as Russian Economy Minister Maxim Reshetnikov was speaking out. chart.
Russian President Vladimir Putin did not attend the summit of the Group of 20 major economies in Bali last month despite an invitation from host Indonesia, which has resisted pressure from Western countries to quit. refused the leader’s invitation and even expelled Russia from the bloc.
Murray did not say whether Putin would attend next year’s APEC leaders’ meeting in San Francisco. The Russian leader was represented by First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov at a meeting of leaders hosted by Thailand last month.
