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Special Ambassador On Marat Berdyev, on behalf of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said that the United States of America has informed the Russian Federation through bilateral channels that it will not invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to the APEC summit to be held in San Francisco.
According to him, the US representatives announced, that they will not invite a number of leaders of other countries to this year's summit because they are subject to sanctions restrictions.
“We continue to work with Washington to get US officials to fulfill their commitments as the host of the summit,” Berdyev noted.
He explained that this White House decision shows “bad will on the part of the US,” as well as a tendency to “maintain a confrontational approach to issues of multilateral economic cooperation.”