Russian President Vladimir Putin with Chinese President Xi Jinping a few weeks before launching Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine on February 4, 2022. Chinese and Russian leaders Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin will attend the G-20 summit in the resort island of Bali this November, a longtime adviser to the Indonesian president said on Friday.
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Chinese and Russian leaders Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin will attend the G-20 summit in Bali this November, a longtime adviser to the Indonesian president said on Friday.
Andi Widjajanto, a former cabinet secretary and unofficial adviser to President Joko Widodo, who is commonly known as Jokowi, told Reuters that the two leaders would take part in the summit.
“Jokowi told me that both Xi and Putin plan to attend in Bali,” Widjajanto, head of the National Institute of Rehabilitation, told Reuters.
On Thursday, Jokowi told Bloomberg News that both leaders gave him guarantees. Indonesian presidential officials did not respond to a request to confirm the report.
China’s Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment. A Kremlin spokesman declined to comment to Bloomberg, but another official familiar with the situation told Putin news agency that he plans to attend the meeting in person.
The trip will be important as it will be Xi’s first time outside of China since January 2020, when he visits Myanmar.
China maintains a no-Covid policy that closes all of its borders to international travel.
Since then, Mr. Xi has made his only trip outside of mainland China on June 30, visiting Hong Kong to mark the 25th anniversary of the handover of the territory from British control.
Mr. Xi is expected to secure a precedent-breaking third term in leadership during the ruling Communist Party’s biennial congress scheduled for this fall, most likely before he arrives. Bali attends G-20 summit in mid-November.
No date has been announced for the party congress, but the last two took place in late October and early November.
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Chinese officials are also planning a meeting in Southeast Asia in November between Xi and US President Joe Biden, who is expected to attend the summit. G-20 in Bali.
As the head of this year’s G-20, Indonesia has faced pressure from Western countries to withdraw an invitation to Putin over his country’s invasion of Ukraine, which his government called a “special military operation.”
Indonesia has also invited Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy to the Bali summit.
Jokowi has sought to be a mediator between the warring countries, and in recent months he has met with both the presidents of Ukraine and Russia to call for an end to the war and to defuse the wage crisis. global reality.
This week, Jokowi said both countries have accepted Indonesia as a “bridge to peace.”
