G20 news – live: Cambodia PM tests positive for Covid days after hosting world leaders

Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen has tested positive for Covid-19 at the G20 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 by an Indonesian physician this morning.

He said he was returning to Cambodia and was cancelling his meetings at the G20 as well as the following APEC economic forum in Bangkok.

He wrote: “Beloved compatriots! Now I have tested positive for Covid-19.”

He added: “I am not sure when this virus came to me, but when I arrived, the Indonesians took a sample from me in the evening, and in the morning it confirmed Covid-19 positive.”

President Joe Biden is set to cajole world leaders to further isolate Russia economically and diplomatically over its war in Ukraine.

The Associated Press reported that the US president will continue a global tour pressing nations to stand up to Russia and defend Ukraine’s sovereignty in both symbolic and substantive ways.

Meanwhile, Indonesian president Joko Widodo mentioned said that the world must not fall into another cold war.

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi today addressed the G20 summit in Bali and said that we have to find a way to return to the path of ceasefire and diplomacy in Ukraine.

“I have repeatedly said that we have to find a way to return to the path of ceasefire and diplomacy in Ukraine.”

He continued: “Over the past century, the Second World War wreaked havoc in the world. After that, the leaders of that time made a serious effort to take the path of peace. Now it’s our turn.”

Mr Modi said that the “onus of creating a new world order” for the post-Covid period lies on our shoulders. “The need of the hour is to show concrete and collective resolve to ensure peace, harmony and security in the world.”

Sergei Lavrov has dismissed reports that he was hospitalised following his arrival in Bali for the G20 summit.

Indonesian authorities said that the Russian foreign minister was taken to hospital for a heart condition.

Mr Lavrov appeared in a video apparently from his hotel room in Bali to deny the claims.

“This is a kind of game that is not new in politics,” Mr Lavrov said.

“I’m at the hotel. I’m reading up for tomorrow’s summit,” he told Russian state news agency TASS.

European Council president Charles Michel urged world leaders today to intensify pressure on Russia over its war against Ukraine, including Moscow’s biggest supporter China, it was reported.

He added that the summit this week was crucial to stopping Russia’s push “use food and energy as weapons”.

“Russia’s war impacts us all, no matter where we live, from Europe to Africa or the Middle East, and the single best way to end the acute crisis in food and energy is for Russia to end this senseless war and to respect the UN charter,” Mr Michel said.

“The Kremlin has decided to weaponise food, driving up hunger, poverty and instability.”

He added: “This is not a battle (of) Russia against the Western part of the world. It’s a battle for the U.N. charter. It’s a battle for international law. It’s a battle for the idea that this is not acceptable to try to change by force internationally recognised borders.”

French president Emmanuel Macron met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping this morning and said that the two nations should unite against the war in Ukraine.

On the sidelines of the G20 summit, Mr Macron told Mr Xi that they must “unite forces to respond … to international crises like Russia’s war in Ukraine”.

In his opening remarks, the Chinese leader didn’t make remarks about Russia or Ukraine and called broadly for the two countries to “uphold the spirits of independence, autonomy, openness and cooperation”.

British prime minister Rishi Sunak at the G20 summit today extended his support for Ukraine and confirmed a long-planned order for warships from BAE Systems, Reuters reported.

Mr Sunak said during his address: “Russia’s actions put all of us at risk. As we give the Ukrainian people the support they need, we are also harnessing the breadth and depth of UK expertise to protect ourselves and our allies.”

The UK prime minister also announced a $4.94bn contract to BAE Systems to build five ships for the Royal Navy, a government statement said.

Russian president Vladimir Putin’s regime would hear the chorus of global opposition to its actions, Mr Sunak said.

“One man has the power to change all of this. It is notable that Putin didn’t feel able to join us here. Maybe if he had, we could get on with sorting things out,” he added.

President Joe Biden is set to cajole the world’s largest economies to further isolate Russia diplomatically and economically over its invasion of Ukraine despite a souring global outlook that has tested other nations’ resolve.

In meetings today at the Group of 20 summit in Indonesia, the US leader is to continue a global tour pressing nations to stand up to Russia and in defense of Ukraine’s sovereignty in both symbolic and substantive ways. The effort comes as global inflation and slowing economies have put new pressures on countries that imposed penalties on Russia for the nine-month war that has sent food and energy prices soaring.

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Rishi Sunak has delivered a sharp rebuke to Russia at the G20summit of world leaders in Indonesia, telling Vladimir Putin to “end this barbaric war”.

Facing Putin’s foreign secretary Sergei Lavrov across the conference table, Mr Sunak denounced the invasion of Ukraine as “illegal” and described Russia’s weaponization of food and energy supplies as “unacceptable”.

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In a possible criticism of Russia, Chinese President Xi Jinping warned today at the G20 summit against the “weaponisation” of food and energy.

He said: “We must firmly oppose politicisation, instrumentalisation and weaponisation of food and energy problems.”