Contradictions in the “Big twenty” (G20) have been associated with attempts to find blame in a situation with coronavirus. This was stated by the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov in interview to the program “the Big game” on the First channel, reports TASS.
According to him, the Group of twenty is interested in joining efforts to combat coronavirus, as evidenced by its decisions. At the same time, some of it “trying to determine who is to blame, whether it is necessary to point the finger at one or a few countries or world health organization,” Lavrov said.
Earlier it was reported that the US and China disrupted a history of the leaders of the G20 members because of a dispute about who. Washington insisted that the organization reported on the steps taken in the beginning of the epidemic of coronavirus measures, but Beijing has opposed this proposal. As a result, the video conference was cancelled at the last moment.
April 15, Washington has suspended funding to the who. The measure will be valid until until investigated “error in response and the concealment of the spread of coronavirus”. The decision was criticized in the UN and Russia.
the U.S. also has repeatedly accused China of untimely submission of data about COVID-19. In particular, Secretary Mike Pompeo has publicly called for China and other countries to be transparent in relation to statistics on the coronavirus. The representative of the foreign Ministry of China Hua Chunying responded by saying that Beijing has always adhered to an open position relative to the publication of data about the epidemic of coronavirus.
