Lavrov retreats from G20 with world leaders, blaming Ukraine for negotiation failures
Guardian, 09 Jul 2022
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said his colleagues at the G20 summit in Indonesia described Russia as ‘aggressor, invader, occupier’. Lavrov also said Ukraine was the main obstacle to a negotiated settlement to the war in Ukraine. Annalena Baerbock, Germany’s foreign minister, rejected Russia’s characterisation, saying: ‘The fact that [Lavrov] spent a large part of the negotiations not in but outside the room underlines that there is not a millimetre of willingness to talk on the Russia side’
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