Polish foreign minister says he has a message for Lavrov at G20 meeting
Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has said he has a message for Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, which he intends to deliver to him at the G20 meeting.
Source: Polish media outlet PAP, citing Sikorski, as reported by European Pravda
Details: Sikorski said he intends to repeat the message he previously delivered to Lavrov at a UN Security Council meeting: "Sergei, tell your boss enough is enough. It's time to put an end to this. Five years of this bloody war – it has to stop."
Answering a question about an invitation to a meeting with Lavrov, he replied: "For us, this is an awkward situation... We would like Russia to start behaving like a member of the clubs to which it belongs and where certain rules apply. If you are a member of a club, you must behave like a gentleman, and some, unfortunately, do not know how to do that."
Sikorski said the two-day ministerial meeting in the US state of Georgia would focus on freedom of shipping, access to food and energy issues.
"On all three issues, Poland has something to say, as freedom and safety of shipping in the Baltic Sea is an important matter, critical infrastructure on the bed of the Baltic Sea and the fact that grain from Ukraine and Europe is not reaching Egypt and other countries is one of the reasons why the bloody Russian aggression against Ukraine must stop," he explained.
Background:
- Lavrov arrived in the US, where he will take part in the G20 ministerial meeting.
- On 23 September, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington has invited Russian leader Vladimir Putin to attend the G20 leaders' summit in Miami in December and expressed hope that he will attend.
- The Kremlin said Russia is "grateful for and appreciates the invitation" and promised to decide on Putin's participation at a later date.
- On 17 October, Trump told reporters that he did not know whether Putin would attend the G20 summit in Miami.
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