US Secretary of State Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov are set to face off in India-led G20 meeting, where the Russia-Ukraine war and tensions with China likely to top the agenda
Hosting the G20 puts India in a tricky position because while it shares Western concerns about China, it is also a major buyer of Russian arms and has ramped up oil imports.
A meeting was seen as unlikely between the two men, who have not been in the same room since a G20 meeting in Bali in July when, according to Western officials, the Russian foreign minister walked out. Western countries want to "take revenge for the inevitable disappearance of the levers of dominance from its hands," the ministry's English-language statement said.
Last week, a meeting of G20 finance ministers in Bengaluru failed to agree on a common statement after Russia and China sought to water down language on the Ukraine war.Similarly in doubt on the sidelines of the two-day G20 gathering in New Delhi was a meeting between Blinken and his Chinese counterpart Qin Gang.
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