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G20 final day opens with some ‘adjustments’ as emergency meeting held over Poland blast
The second and final day of the Group of 20 Leaders' Summit began in Bali on Wednesday with some changes in the schedule as United States President Joe Biden held an emergency meeting with some global leaders over the blast in Poland.
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Group of 20 leaders raise their garden hoes for a group photo during a tree planting event at the Taman Hutan Raya Ngurah Rai Mangrove Forest, on the sidelines of the G20 Summit meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali on Nov. 16. (AFP/ Alex Brandon )
The second and final day of the Group of 20 Leaders' Summit began in Bali on Wednesday with some changes in the schedule as world leaders reacted to overnight reports that a Russian-made missile had killed two people in the Polish territory near Ukraine.
G20 leaders were to participate in a mangrove tree planting on Wednesday morning before holding their second-day talk. The tree-planting event, however, was delayed one to one-and-a-half hours by an emergency meeting to discuss reports of a missile landing in Polish territory near Ukraine.
“As far as program arrangements go, there are some adjustments,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Teuku Faizasyah said, referring to the meeting as “one of the dynamics” that often occurs when holding international events.
Convened by United States President Joe Biden in a ballroom in his hotel in Nusa Dua, G7 and NATO leaders as well took part in the emergency meeting after deadly explosions in Przewodow, a village in eastern Poland near the border with Ukraine.
Leaders participating in the meeting include those from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the European Union, along with the president of the European Council and the prime ministers of NATO allies Spain and the Netherlands.
NATO member Poland said in Warsaw that a Russian-made rocket killed two people on Tuesday in eastern Poland near Ukraine, and it summoned Russia's ambassador to Warsaw for an explanation after Moscow denied it was responsible.
The blasts came after Russia struck cities across Ukraine with missiles, attacks that Kyiv said were the heaviest wave of strikes nearly nine months into the Russian invasion.
