“In the future, we need to agree that the status of the host country does not give the opportunity to limit the right to participate for the countries of the region,” TASS quoted him as saying.

The New York Times noted that the potential refusal to attend the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles by Mexican and Brazilian Presidents Andres Manuel López Obrador and Jair Bolsonaro could be a humiliating blow for Biden.

President of Honduras Siomara Castro said that she would attend the summit if representatives of all countries of the region were invited there.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel intends to boycott the summit.