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Russia will be welcomed to participate in conferences of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) bloc hosted by the United States next year, a U.S. authorities stated on Monday.
As “good stewards of APEC,” the United States will welcome Russia, which belongs to the 21- nation bloc, Matt Murray, a senior U.S. authorities for APEC, informed a media instruction in Singapore.
Relations in between Washington and Moscow have actually degraded to their worst in 60 years because Russia attacked Ukraine in February, an act it validates as a “special military operation,” however which has actually triggered sanctions and condemnation from Western countries in addition to nations like Singapore.
At an APEC conference hosted by Thailand in May, agents from the United States and some other nations left of a conference in demonstration of Russia’s actions in Ukraine when Russian Economy Minister Maxim Reshetnikov was providing remarks.
Russian President Vladimir Putin did not participate in a top of the Group of 20 significant economies in Bali last month regardless of an invite from host Indonesia, which had actually withstood pressure from Western nations to disinvite the leader and even expel Russia from the bloc.
Murray did not state if Putin would participate in next year’s APEC leaders’ conference in SanFrancisco The Russian leader was represented by First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov at the leaders’ conference hosted by Thailand last month.
