Japan’s Finance Ministry: Russia can take part in G20 summit online

Japanese Finance Minister Shun’ichi Suzuki said at a parliamentary committee meeting that he did not rule out Russia’s participation in the G20 ministerial meeting online, Report informs referring to RIA Novosti.

“G20 chair country Indonesia has sent out invitations to all countries to participate. As for how each of the countries will act, there is such information that the Russian finance minister will participate online. I have heard such information. However, Indonesia is in charge of all the details,” Suzuki said, CMIO International reports.

At the same time, he made the reservation that Japan could not comment on the participation or non-participation of other countries in any way.

“As for the participation of Russia and China, each country registers with the Indonesian presidency. Therefore, the Japanese government cannot speak about the prospects for the participation of a particular country,” the minister stressed.