US to Invite Russia to Attend 2023 APEC Meetings in San Francisco: State DepartmentThe United States plans to invite Russia to attend meetings of the Asia–Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) bloc, which will be hosted by the Unite States next year, despite deteriorating relations between the two, a senior official has said.
U.S. State Department senior official for APEC, Matt Murray, told a media briefing in Singapore on Monday that the nation, “as good stewards of APEC,” will invite Russia, a member of the 21-country bloc, to attend the meetings which are set to take place in November 2023.
“We want to be good stewards of APEC. So we've invited Russia to participate, just as we have any other economies,” he said, according to The Straits Times. “We've informed our Russian counterparts that we would abide by the rules and regulations in the United States when it came to facilitating their participation.”...
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