Biden doesn’t rule out meeting Putin during the G20 summit
The US President Joe Biden did not rule out Thursday that he would meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia.
“We’ll look into this”, Biden told reporters, in response to a question about the possibility of holding a direct meeting with the Russian president during the summit.
The White House has previously announced that a similar meeting is not possible.
But the two presidents’ plans to go to Indonesia still require confirmation.
The White House had announced that if Putin went to the G20 summit, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should also participate, even though his country isn’t a member of the group.
In addition, Biden said Thursday that he is confident of holding a meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, if the latter comes to Bali.
But the presence of Putin and Xi is not certain, especially as the invasion of Ukraine isolated Russia internationally while the Chinese president limits his trips abroad due to the Covid-19.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo announced in an interview with Bloomberg in August that the Russian and Chinese presidents would attend the summit.
