{"id":50123,"date":"2024-03-29T17:41:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T07:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=50123"},"modified":"2024-03-29T17:41:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T07:41:53","slug":"macron-says-g20-must-agree-before-inviting-putin-to-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=50123","title":{"rendered":"Macron says G20 must agree before inviting Putin to summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that members of the G20 would have to agree before Russian leader Vladimir Putin is invited to attend the group&#8217;s summit in Brazil in November.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The meaning of this club is that there must be consensus with the 19 others. That will be a job for Brazilian diplomacy,&#8221; he said during a joint press conference in Brasilia with his counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.<\/p>\n<p>If such a meeting can be &#8220;useful, it must be done,&#8221; Macron said, though he warned division on the matter could scuttle any Russian invitation.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil, the current chair of the G20 group &#8212; which represents 80 percent of the global economy &#8212; has opposed the US-led drive to isolate and punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, arguing that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Western countries share some of the blame for the war.<\/p>\n<p>Putin missed last year&#8217;s G20 summit in the Indian capital New Delhi, avoiding possible political opprobrium and any risk of criminal detention under an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2023, Lula said there was &#8220;no way&#8221; that Putin would be arrested if he attended the Rio de Janeiro summit.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after, he backtracked and said that it would be up to the justice system to decide on Putin&#8217;s eventual arrest and not his government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that members of the G20 would have to agree before Russian leader Vladimir Putin is invited to attend the group&#8217;s summit in Brazil in November. &#8220;The meaning of this club is that there must be consensus with the 19 others. That will be a job for Brazilian diplomacy,&#8221; he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[969],"class_list":["post-50123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-macron-says-g20-must-agree-before-inviting-putin-to-summit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}