Avoiding a possible confrontation with the United States and its allies over his war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the Group of 20 summit in Indonesia next week.
US President Joe Biden, Chinese President Xi Jinping and other world leaders are to attend the two-day summit in Bali that starts on November 15.
The summit was to be the first time that Biden and Putin would have been together at a gathering since Russia invaded Ukraine in February.
Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, the Chief of Support for G-20 events told reporters in Indonesia, that Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will lead the Russian delegation.
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