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Foreign Secretary David Cameron used the closed G20 meeting to criticize Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s invasion of Ukraine.
“Russia must pay the price for its aggression,” he told a meeting of foreign ministers attended by Lavrov, his office said, following attacks on Ukraine that began two years ago.
“There is no more serious problem for the world, and we are all here together, than for one country to invade another country in this completely illegal and unacceptable way,” he was quoted as saying.
“And the whole world should stand with Ukraine, support Ukraine and condemn the illegality of what Putin and his cronies have done.”
Cameron is also said to have commented on the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in the country’s remote prison last week.
Other leaders also criticized Mr. Lavrov, who was alleged to have been looking at his mobile phone while speaking.
The media did not have access to the closed-door meeting, but Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Wald Eide told reporters that Mr. Lavrov calmly responded to Prime Minister Cameron’s remarks with “a series of alternative facts” regarding the situation in Ukraine. said. Reuters.
Members of the G20, including the UK, US, Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, France and Norway, met in Brazil, which holds this year’s G20 Presidency, to set the agenda for the key summit. It will be held in November.
Prime Minister David Cameron said ahead of the meeting that he would clarify the consequences Russia would face after Navalny’s death.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs stated: “We need to adapt international rules and institutions to the challenges we face today. This means reforming, not destroying, the rules-based international order.
“While the Kremlin pays lip service to concepts such as sovereignty, it openly undermines it. Unlike Russia, we match our words with our actions.”
Yesterday, Britain announced sanctions against six Russian nationals responsible for the Arctic penal colony where Mr. Navalny died, in a bid to hold accountable “those responsible for Mr. Navalny’s brutal treatment.”
“It is clear that the Russian authorities view Mr. Navalny as a threat and have repeatedly tried to silence him,” Cameron said.
“FSB [Russian security agency] In 2020, agents poisoned him with Novichok, imprisoned him for his peaceful political activities, and sent him to an Arctic penal colony.
“No one should doubt the repressive nature of the Russian regime.”