Prime Minister Mark Carney says he will keep any conversation with Vladimir Putin short if he comes face-to-face with the Russian president at the G20 summit later this year.
The U.S. is hosting the annual gathering in Miami and U.S. President Donald Trump has said he’d like Putin to join. The Kremlin indicated in the spring that it’s possible Putin will take up the invitation.
During an unrelated news conference on Thursday, Carney was asked about what he might discuss with Putin should he attend the summit in December.
“The message will be simple: ‘Get out of Ukraine, give back all of Ukraine to Ukraine, end this war which is killing more than 30,000 of your people every single month,’ and I’d leave it at that to be honest,” Carney said.
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Putin hasn’t attended a G20 summit since he launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The International Criminal Court has an active arrest warrant for the Russian leader.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hosted G20 finance ministers in Asheville, N.C., earlier this week with Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov in attendance.
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What a big boy you are Carney. U gonna tell him? U gonna use big words? U gonna actually do anything?
What else can he do? Stab in the heart with some cutlery? I mean that would be great, but probably not for Canada in the long run. Canada is already supporting Ukraine as much as it can, which unfortunately isn’t very much. Not accepting Putin at the g20 is the right move.
Rather than criticize Carney why aren’t you criticizing Trump for inviting Putin in the first place?