Bidding decision to rockets makes West-Moscow diplomacy difficult
Bidding decision to rockets makes West-Moscow diplomacy difficult
An important decision of the to enable Ukraine to fire long-range missiles in Russia, has the prospect of a possible diplomatic approach between the West and Russia. This decision was made while dozens of world leaders gathered this week.
strategic changes and diplomatic challenges
The decision on Sunday was seen as a sign by many western leaders to position Ukraine for future successes, especially with regard to a change in American leadership, whereby the upcoming president is skeptical about continued support from the USA
This step makes it difficult to deal with the diplomatic handling in which the guides have to move at the G20 summit while navigating the complex geopolitical dynamics in the group.
statements from Russia and dealing with international allegations
Russia will perceive the kills of long-range missiles accompanied by the US military, as a qualitatively new phase of the War of the West, said Russia, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a press conference as part of the summit, as reported by the state news agency TASS.
lavrov represented President Vladimir Putin, who was confronted with questions whether he could be arrested on international soil due to war crimes. Days after Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj asked the Brazilian authorities to arrest Putin, the Russian guide announced that he would avoid the summit to avoid disorders.
secret conversations and diplomatic encounters
In the middle of these strategic changes that had weighed up bidges for months, the president and his team kept away during the Lavrov summit.
When bidding missed a photo with other leaders on Monday, there was speculation that he tried to avoid a photo opportunity with Lavrov. The White House rejected these speculation and blamed logistical problems.
Nevertheless, neither bidges nor his delegation had talks with Lavrov or his team, as US officials reported. The flexible schedule of Biden and Lavrov meant that they were not photographed together with other world leaders.
changes in European politics
Some western allies who expect a fundamental turn in US foreign policy with the impending office of Donald Trump seem to rethink their attitude towards Moscow.
The German Chancellor Olaf Scholz led a telephone conversation with Putin the week before the summit. Lavrov paid tribute to the German government's refusal to deliver Taurus Cruise Missiles to Ukraine as a "responsible attitude", reported Tass.
During the summit, French President Emmanuel Macron was seen as he shook his hand when he was in the series behind him during a "family photo" of the participants.
The effects of the upcoming Trump Presidency
in Rio overshadowed the upcoming Trump Presidency almost every discussion about the Ukraine conflict. The leaders are aware of Trump's views of the war, but it remains uncertain how this will develop in politics as soon as he is in office.
It remains unclear, for example, whether Trump will maintain Biden's decision to grant Ukraine the long-distance capacity, a step that NATO has been supporting for months. Trump's future security advisor and Florida representative Mike Waltz doubted the decision in an interview on Monday.diplomatic explanations and conclusions
There were hopes among western officials for a strong explanation of the conviction of Russia's invasion at the end of the summit. In particular, European diplomats urged a stronger wording in the final phase after Russia had carried out a massive drone and rocket attack on Sunday.
Finally, the attempt was stopped when it became clear that other countries did not agree. The wording in the final declaration of the heads of state was weakened compared to previous years, including general references to "humanitarian suffering" and "negative effects of war" without the express conviction.The Ukraine War was mentioned only with a paragraph in the final document, while in the last document of the G20 summit there were several paragraphs last year.
tensions between the USA and Russia
When the summit came to an end, it became clear that the tensions between the USA and Russia only increase. Russia announced that it would update its nuclear doctrine to consider aggression of non-nuclear states-but with the participation of a nuclear country-as a joint attack on Moscow.
officials were not surprised when they learned about long-range missiles from the changes to the Russian nuclear doctrine after Biden's decision.
"Russia had signaled that it had intended to update its doctrine for several weeks," said a US official with regard to the update of the doctrine and added that the United States had not yet established any changes in Russia's nuclear attitude and therefore see no reason for a change in the US position.
"This is more of the same irresponsible talk from Russia that we have seen in the past two years," said the official.
In his final remarks, Lavrov tried to downplay the change in the details of the nuclear attitude - and instead pushed the fault onto the West.
"The update of the military doctrine does not add anything that differs from the American documents about what to do with nuclear weapons," says Russian state media.
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