BENGALURU (Reuters) -France will not sign off on a G20 communique unless it contains the same denunciation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as it did last year, its finance minister said on Friday on the sidelines of a G20 meeting in India.
“I want to make very clear that we will oppose any step back from the leaders on the statement from the leaders in Bali on this question of war in Ukraine,” Bruno Le Maire told a news conference.
The leaders’ declaration after the last G20 summit in Bali deplored “in the strongest terms the aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine and demands its complete and unconditional withdrawal from the territory of Ukraine”.
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