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Cambodian leader said he had tested positive last night and that the test had been confirmed this morning
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Your support makes all the difference.Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen tested positive for Covid-19 at the summit, days after hosting world leaders, including Joe Biden, in capital Phnom Penh.
On his Facebook page, the Cambodian leader said he had tested positive last night and that the test had been confirmed this morning.
Meanwhile, G20 is going to issue a statement at the end of the summit condemning Russia’s war in Ukraine, a senior US official said.
“I think you’re going to see most members of the G20 make clear that they condemn Russia’s war in Ukraine, that they see Russia’s war in Ukraine as the root source of immense economic and humanitarian suffering in the world,” the official was quoted as saying by AFP.
Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo said today that the world must not fall into another Cold War and that “it would be difficult for the world to move forward” unless the war ends.
Also, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky told the G20 that “now is the time when Russia’s war must and can be stopped” during his virtual address to world leaders.
“We will not allow Russia to wait out and build up its forces.”
China hopes to bring relations ‘back on track’ with US
Ahead of the anticipated meeting between Chinese president Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Joe Biden, Beijing on Monday said it hopes to bring relations “back on track” between the two nations.
China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning was quoted by AFP as saying that Beijing hopes that the US will “work together with China appropriately keeping differences in check”.
“We hope US would ... promote mutually beneficial cooperation, and avoid misunderstandings and misjudgments in order to push US-China relations back on track for healthy and stable development.”
Britain and EU urge allies to snub Russia - report
The EU and Britain are reportedly planning to snub Russia’s Sergei Lavrov at the G20 summit by staging walkouts and are encouraging their allies to follow suit.
The Telegraph quoted EU officials saying that they would do “everything possible” to isolate Russia at the Bali summit.
Russian president Vladimir Putin has decided to skip the gathering and is sending his foreign minister instead to avoid world leaders critical of his nine-month-long war in Ukraine.
“We try to work with partners in order to show very, very, very firmly what the international community thinks about all these crimes, atrocities, and illegal actions by Russia,” a spokesman from the EU’s foreign affairs told the British daily.
“That means also discouraging them from meeting Lavrov or from meeting anyone who is leading the Russian delegation or have people walk out when Russia stands to speak.”
The spokesman added: “The UK is not keen on coordinating with the EU on foreign policy in general but on this issue, we have the same objective and are mutually reinforcing our efforts.”
Breaking: Russia’s Sergei Lavrov rushed to hospital after arriving in Bali
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has been taken to the hospital after suffering a health problem following his arrival for the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesian authorities said.
Indonesian government and medical officials said the Russian diplomat was being treated for a heart condition on the resort island.
More details to follow in this report:
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov hospitalised after arriving for G20 summit
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has been taken to the hospital after suffering a health problem following his arrival for the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesian authorities said.
Lavrov has left hospital, says Bali governor
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has left the hospital and is in “good health”, the governor of Bali said on Monday.
It was earlier reported that Mr Lavrov, who arrived in Bali on Sunday and is attending the G20 summit on behalf of Vladimir Putin, was taken to a hospital and was being treated for a heart condition.
The Russian foreign ministry released a video of Mr Lavrov smiling at a desk and said that the reports were “baseless” and the “height of fakery”.
Japan’s Kishida to meet Chinese president on Thursday
Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida will meet Chinese president Xi Jinping amid raising tensions between the two Asian countries over Taiwan and North Korea.
“It’s necessary to build constructive and stable Japan-China relations through the efforts of both Japan and China,” said Hirokazu Matsuno, chief cabinet secretary of Japan.
“We would like to hold a meeting to move forward” with bilateral relations.
Both leaders are in Bali, Indonesia to attend the two-day G20 summit.
Biden meets Xi for a closed-door meeting in Bali
Sunak to call for G20 action to end Russian ‘stranglehold’ on energy
Rishi Sunak will call for global action to end Russia’s stranglehold on global energy prices as he addresses fellow world leaders at the G20 summit in Indonesia.
Reducing reliance on Russian gas and oil – including by stepping up investment in renewables – forms part of a five-point plan being put forward by the prime minister for coordinated global action to deal with the worldwide economic slump.
Mr Sunak has vowed to confront Moscow’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov over the war in Ukraine when he becomes the first UK prime minister to speak with a representative of the Russian government since the invasion in February.
Andrew Woodcock reports.
Sunak to call for G20 action to end Russian ‘stranglehold’ on energy
PM’s five-point plan for ‘coordinated global action’ to reverse economic slump
Rishi Sunak arrives in Bali for G20
Rishi Sunak has arrived in Indonesia for a summit of the world’s most powerful economies which is expected to be dominated by tensions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The G20 is the second international summit attended by Mr Sunak in a hectic three weeks since becoming PM, following the Cop27 talks in Egypt last week. He left the UK on Sunday afternoon for the 18-hour flight to the southeast Asian archipelago state.
He had been hoping to add a visit to Japan onto the end of the trip, but was forced to ditch the idea in order to come back to London for Jeremy Hunt’s crucial autumn statement on Thursday.
Andrew Woodcock reports from Bali.
Rishi Sunak arrives in Bali for G20 summit dominated by tension over Ukraine
PM has vowed to ‘call out’ Russian aggression in encounter with Putin’s foreign minister
Lavrov says reports of hospitalisation a ‘political game’
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov in a video dismissed reports of him being taken to a hospital in Bali as a “political game”.Officials in Indonesia said Mr Lavrov was taken to a hospital and checked for a possible “heart condition” on Monday and later released.
In a video shared by Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Mr Lavrov can be seen sitting outdoors on a patio, dressed in shorts and a T-shirt and reading documents.
The foreign minister, when asked about reports that he was currently in hospital, said: “Well they also have been writing about our president [Vladimir Putin] that he has been sick... this is some kind of a game in politics.”
He added: “Western journalists need to be more truthful - they need to write the truth.” He did not directly deny that he had been to the hospital earlier in the day.
Sunak to urge G20 leaders to ‘fix weaknesses’ in global economy
Rishi Sunak will call on fellow G20 leaders to “fix the weaknesses” in the global economic system and work together to bring down prices driven up by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The prime minister has arrived in Bali, Indonesia, for the two-day summit, which will officially commence on Tuesday.
Mr Sunak said he will “call out Putin’s regime” during the first encounter between a British prime minister and Russian government officials since Moscow’s full-scale invasion began in February.
He plans to confront Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov with allies at the summit’s first plenary session.
Ahead of the trip, the prime minister’s official spokesman said: “We will absolutely use every opportunity to confront Russia about their continued illegal actions.
“We… will speak with our allies in one voice on this.”
Read more here.
Sunak to urge G20 leaders to ‘fix weaknesses’ in global economy
The meeting of major economic powers in Bali comes amid geopolitical tensions and economic woes worsened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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