European Union leaders were unhappy with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula’s decision to end negotiations at the G20 summit early, thereby curtailing the debate over Ukraine. Reuters reported this on November 19.
“The statement is usually published at the end of the summit, but Lula decided to approve the text at the end of Monday’s plenary session; at that time the leaders of France, Germany and the United States were not in the room.” – indicated in the publication.
The agency noted that the French leader Emmanuel Macron He was dissatisfied with this decision by Luiz Inácio Lula. He said “the text would have benefited from being more frank” about the Ukrainian conflict.
Hours earlier, the Financial Times saw a decline in support for kyiv at the G20 amid calls for negotiations with the Russian Federation. According to the newspaper, some European delegations wanted to include in the text a clause condemning Russia, but abandoned this demand for fear of disturbing the adoption of the document. Journalists also noted that negotiations on Ukraine and the conflict in the Middle East were delayed until the final days before the summit.
The G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro was held on November 18-19 and Russia was represented by the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Sergei Lavrov. In the already adopted final declaration, the meeting participants welcomed all constructive initiatives to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, RBC recalls.
