BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany is expecting more open and direct discussions with Russia at the upcoming meeting of finance ministers from the Group of 20 nations, government sources said on Wednesday, after a G20 meeting in April was disrupted by walkouts.
“Most will want to adopt a different approach on the day after April,” one of the sources added, referring to a walkout staged by top officials from Britain, the United States and Canada.
Efforts by Indonesia, which is hosting the meeting in Bali on Friday and Saturday, to reach agreement on a joint communique will be very difficult, the source said, adding that Russia and China were banding together more closely amid a crisis with the West over Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
(Reporting by Christian Kraemer, Writing by Rachel More, Editing by Maria Sheahan)
