G20 finance meeting in Asheville: Bessent meets Siluanov as Europe protests Russian attendance
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- European officials objected to Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov’s participation in the G20 finance meetings in Asheville, North Carolina.
- They threatened to boycott the traditional group photograph if Siluanov joined it, and he ultimately did not appear.
- Siluanov held bilateral talks with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who discussed Donald Trump’s Ukraine peace plan.
A threatened European boycott kept Russia’s finance minister out of the traditional G20 group photograph in Asheville, North Carolina.
European officials protested the inclusion of Anton Siluanov during the meeting’s “family photo.” German Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil and other European ministers and central bank governors said they would not take part if Siluanov appeared.
The pressure appeared to work. Siluanov ultimately did not attend the photograph. His presence at the meetings marked the first time a Russian minister had participated since the start of the war in Ukraine.
Siluanov also held bilateral talks with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the sidelines. The U.S. Treasury Department said Bessent discussed President Donald Trump’s “peace plan” for the war between Russia and Ukraine.
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