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An invitation to the December G20 summit in the United States will be sent to Russia as a member of the organization, a senior U.S. official said Thursday.
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Such an invitation would come as the Trump administration pushes to further ease the international isolation Russia brought on itself by invading Ukraine in 2022.
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“All G20 members will be invited to attend ministerial meetings and the leaders’ summit,” a senior Trump administration official said in a statement.
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The Kremlin said earlier in the day that Russian President Vladimir Putin had not yet decided if he would attend.
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“No such decisions have been made yet,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in Moscow.
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Putin has not participated in a meeting of the world’s top economies since 2019, first because of the coronavirus pandemic and then due to the war on Ukraine.
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Russia was invited at “the highest level” for the December 14-15 summit in Miami, the state news agency RIA Novosti quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Pankin as saying.
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After sending troops into neighbouring Ukraine in 2022, Russia was slapped with numerous international sanctions and faced diplomatic isolation from the West.
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In 2023, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Putin over the war, limiting the Russian leader’s travel.
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The United States is not a member of the ICC and Putin travelled to Alaska last August for a summit with U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Since returning to the White House last year, Trump has sought to revive long-frozen relations with Russia ostensibly in an attempt to end the war in Ukraine.
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Initially promising to end the war in 24 hours, Trump’s attempts so far have delivered few tangible results, even as Moscow and Kyiv met multiple times for talks.
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