Brazil, China, India, and South Africa say it's not "sustainable" solution for Russia to be excluded from G20 meeting-EU Observer

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3/25/14, "Brazil, China, India rally round Russia after G7 snub," EU Observer, Andrew Rettman, Brussels

"The G7 club of wealthy nations has cancelled a summit with Russia over its annexation of Crimea, but emerging economies have protested against its exclusion from a G20 meeting....
 
The June summit, which was to be held in the G8 format with Russia in Sochi, on the Black Sea coast, will now be held in Brussels....

For its part, US ally Australia had indicated Russia might also be excluded from a G20 summit in Brisbane in November.
 
But Brazil, China, India, and South Africa rejected the idea. 

They said, together with Russia, also at The Hague, where almost 60 countries had sent VIPs to a Nuclear Security Summit, that “the escalation of hostile language, sanctions and counter-sanctions...does not contribute to a sustainable and peaceful solution” to the Ukraine crisis. 

“The custodianship of the G20 belongs to all member states equally and no one member state can unilaterally determine its nature."

With Brazil and China now wealthier than some G7 countries, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov noted the G7 has lost its monopoly on global governance."...via Free Rep.


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