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A seen and not seen.

Or rather, a seen, a bath of long faces and a goodbye before time.

Russian media report that Russian Foreign Minister

Sergei Lavrov

will leave the G20 diplomatic chiefs summit, which began in Bali on Thursday, two hours earlier than planned, due to harsh criticism from most participants of the invasion of Ukraine.

According to the BBC, the last straw for Lavrov was the refusal of many of his colleagues to appear together with him in the family photo.

According to the British chain, the Russian participation in Bali had started off on the wrong foot.

It was the first time since the 'special operation' launched last February that Lavrov and his American counterpart,

Anthony Blinken,

would step on the same carpet.

Everyone's discomfort was guaranteed.

Upon entering the resort on the Indonesian island, an anonymous person could be heard shouting: "

When will you stop the war?

Why don't you stop the war?"

In the plenary session of leaders, according to various media, everything got worse.

"Aggressors", "invaders", "occupants" were some of the outbursts that other diplomatic leaders dedicated to one of

Vladimir Putin's right-hand men.

The boycott of Russia spread to all levels, including the ministerial dinner on Thursday night, to which Japan decided not to send its representative.

The Japanese news agency Kiodo assured that the G7 ministers refused to be photographed with Lavrov.

Precisely the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has unexpectedly taken over the agenda of a meeting in which, until the news was known, only Ukraine was discussed.

"I cannot stand someone who is bombing children, adults and civilians at the same time. Therefore, there will be no group photography at this summit," German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock told reporters.

To which Lavrov has replied: "I did not invite anyone to be photographed with me."

Ukrainian diplomatic sources have explained that Lavrov left the auditorium just as his Ukrainian counterpart, Dmitro Kuleba, was speaking via videoconference.

Nor did he attend the intervention of Berbock, nor that of Blinken, who devoted a large part of his conference to advocating the resumption of Ukrainian cereal exports, to avoid increasing the damage in many countries of the Middle East and North Africa such as as a result of the decline in trade.

Without face to face of Lavrov and Blinken

As the Russian daily

Kommersant

reports , Sergei Lavrov held bilateral meetings with the Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, and with the Turkish Mevlut Çavusoglu.

However, a number of countries, including Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, France and Japan, did everything possible from the outset to avoid the Russian presence.

When they failed, they boycotted it.

Therefore, there was no chance for a heads-up Lavrov - Blinken, which the latter had ruled out in advance.

"If the West does not want talks to take place, but wants Ukraine to defeat Russia on the battlefield - both points of view have been expressed - then perhaps there is nothing to talk about with the West," Lavrov said. , in words collected by the Russian agency Tass.

"By following such approaches, Ukraine is being prevented from moving towards the peace process, thus giving the country more weapons to use to attack cities and kill civilians," he added.

Indonesia had to deal with a potato that was hot beforehand.

Last April, the representatives of the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada staged a walkout in protest at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting, also in Bali.

A situation like the one that ended up happening was expected and to which Lavrov himself had anticipated when, speaking to the press before the meeting, he emphasized that I will not "run" after Washington to talk.


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