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View all search resultsRussia can attend APEC meetings, says host United States
As "good stewards of APEC", the United States will invite Russia, which is a member of the 21-country bloc, Matt Murray, a senior US official for APEC, told a media briefing in Singapore.
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Standing together, (left to right) Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, United States Vice President Kamala Harris, South Korea’s Prime Minister Han Duck-soo and New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern pose for photos before a meeting following North Korea’s recent ballistic missile launch during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Bangkok on Friday. (AFP/Haiyun Jiang)
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ussia will be invited to attend meetings of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) bloc hosted by the United States next year, a US official said on Monday.
As "good stewards of APEC", the United States will invite Russia, which is a member of the 21-country bloc, Matt Murray, a senior US official for APEC, told a media briefing in Singapore.
Relations between Washington and Moscow have deteriorated to their worst in 60 years since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, an act it justifies as a "special military operation", but which has prompted sanctions and condemnation from Western nations as well as countries like Singapore.
At an APEC meeting hosted by Thailand in May, representatives from the United States and some other countries walked out of a meeting in protest of Russia's actions in Ukraine when Russian Economy Minister Maxim Reshetnikov was delivering remarks.
Russian President Vladimir Putin did not attend a summit of the Group of 20 major economies in Bali last month despite an invitation from host Indonesia, which had resisted pressure from Western countries to disinvite the leader and even expel Russia from the bloc.
Murray did not say if Putin would attend next year's APEC leaders' meeting in San Francisco. The Russian leader was represented by First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov at the leaders' meeting hosted by Thailand last month.
