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The Foreign ministers from G-20 nations had gathered on 06 Jul on the Indonesian island of Bali for a two-day meeting in which the impact of war in Ukraine was the main issue of discussion.
This was yet another opportunity for the world’s largest economies to take stock of the economic impacts of the war as many nations that have decided to stay neutral in the conflict, like India, Brazil, and host Indonesia are now feeling the pinch as the war has prolonged and there is no hope that it will end soon.
It’s for this reason that Indonesia has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend, (despite pressure from Western nations to keep him away ) and also the Ukrainian President for the G20 , Head of states meeting scheduled to be held in Nov this year..Although the question of whether Putin will attend Nov’s summit is still open, however, his chief diplomat Sergey Lavrov was in Bali and had met the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi but not with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
However, US secy Blinken met his Chinese counterpart Yang to highlight the U.S. commitment to continue with talks and keeping lines of communication open with China. There is no doubt that after what has happened in Ukraine and in South Pacific , it is natural that there are fissures in relations and are not easy to fill those. Both have different perception about the so called rules-based international order, as well .
As many non-aligned nations been caught between the West and Russia over the war in Ukraine, Indonesia like India has been walking a diplomatic tightrope. Both have a stake in both camps. Indonesia like India is a customer for Russian military equipment and is also relying on Ukrainian wheat.
Caught between the deep sea and the devil , Indonesian President Joko Widodo , In June, had visited both Kyiv and Moscow in a bid to free up food and fertilizer supplies frozen by the war.
Conclusion.
So, Analysts who were skeptical as to how much can be achieved by the G20, which is already fraught with rifts over how to manage the war in Ukraine have proved to be right. As expected , despite the severe impact of war on these economies, Deeply divided diplomats from the world’s largest developing nations have failed to find common ground over Russia’s war in Ukraine and how to deal with its global impacts.
CONSEQUENTLY, All these nations doing a balancing act since the outbreak of war will continue to do so, because no one knows which side may blink first and also to mitigate their own DOMESTIC challenges.