Penny Wong says she could not sit through Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s attempt to justify the murder of innocent people in Ukraine.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong has walked out on her Russian counterpart during an international meeting in protest overSenator Wong’s spur-of-the-moment protest came as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov addressed the East Asia Summit foreign ministers’ meeting in Cambodia on Friday.
“Minister Wong could not sit through Mr Lavrov’s attempt to justify the murder of innocent Ukrainians,” a spokeswoman for Senator Wong said. Mr Lavrov and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi staged an earlier walkout of their own after Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi began speaking. Tokyo has criticisedlaunched after US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan this week.
Steel mogul Alexander Abramov launched legal action after the former government’s April sanctioning of 67 Russian elites and oligarchs over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
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