Russian President Vladimir Putin wants an invitation to an international economic summit, but President Joe Biden controls the guest list.
"I, as a senior official of the Russian Federation, actively engage with them and have once again sent a request calling for an invitation to the Russian leader,” Russian Ambassador Marat Berdyyev told state media.Biden will host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in November, an annual gathering of Indo-Pacific leaders that could include a much-anticipated meeting between the U.S. leader and Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping.
Putin has been choosy about what international events he attends in recent months. He was forced to make only a virtual appearance at the BRICS summit in South Africa because the host nation is treaty-bound to arrest him on behalf of the International Criminal Court if he enters in the country. Putin skipped the subsequent G20 summit in India, but he is expected to travel to China next month.
“Russian soldiers raped and committed sexual violence against women of ages ranging from 19 to 83 years,” former Norwegian judge Erik Mose, who chairs the United Nation’s independent commission of inquiry on Ukraine, told the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday. “Frequently, family members were kept in an adjacent room, thereby forced to hear the violations taking place.”
“We’ve seen Russia commit war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said Tuesday. “We’ve made clear that there needs to be accountability for those crimes that they have committed, and so certainly I think representation on a body devoted to human rights is not consistent with their actions in Ukraine.”
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