Russia is trying to get Putin's invitation to the Summit of Ates from the US
With reference to the ambassador from special orders of the Russian Foreign Ministry and the senior official in APEC, Marat Berdiev, state that the US authorities decided not to invite Putin to the future summit through sanctions. "The United States has told us bilateral channels that this year they are not going to invite a number of leaders because they have sanctions restrictions on them," said, in particular, Berdiev.
According to him, Moscow continues to seek from Washington to let Putin be allowed to the Summit of Ates. "I, as the senior official of the Russian Federation, actively interact with them and again sent a request to send an invitation to the Russian leader," - said Marat Berdiev.
In addition, he called the US refusal to invite Putin to the summit by the example of "dishonesty of the US side" and "preserving the confrontation approach to issues of multilateral economic cooperation", as well as "politicization of a purely economic forum. " Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov previously stated that the Kremlin would not expect from Washington an invitation to participate in the summit.
In addition to Putin, the United States refused to call the Hong Kong Administration John Lee, who has also been under US sanctions since 2020. We will remind, on September 25, Reuters, citing their own sources, reported that the heads of Russian energy companies "Rosnafta" and "Gazprom" Igor Sechin and Alexei Miller will join the environment of President Vladimir Putin during his visit to China next month.