Representatives of the United States, Australia, Canada, Chile, Japan, the Republic of Korea and New Zealand said in a joint statement that they had “serious concerns” about the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.
“Reaffirming the importance of a rules-based international order that underpins an open, dynamic, sustainable and peaceful Asia-Pacific region, we strongly urge Russia to end its use of force immediately and to withdraw all its military forces from Ukraine completely and unconditionally.” “Nations said.
Representatives of Canada, New Zealand, Japan and Australia joined the Americans, led by US Trade Representative Catherine Thai, as they left the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting on Saturday.
The walk took place while Russian Economy Minister Maxim Reshetnikov was taking notes during the opening of a two-day meeting of the group of 21 economies.
Delegations from five countries that organized the protest returned to the meeting after Reshetnikov ended his speech, a Thai official said.
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