{"id":3020,"date":"2025-12-04T09:38:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=3020"},"modified":"2025-12-05T13:46:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:46:45","slug":"russia-not-seeking-to-rejoin-g7-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/04\/russia-not-seeking-to-rejoin-g7-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia not seeking to rejoin G7 \u2013 Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"

The president noted that he had stopped attending meetings of the group even before the Ukraine conflict began in 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Russia has no plans to return to the Western-dominated G7 group, President Vladimir Putin has said, noting that its significance continues to dwindle.<\/p>\n

In an interview with India Today on Thursday, published ahead of Putin\u2019s visit to the country, the Russian leader noted that many G7 economies now lag behind emerging economies in purchasing-power parity (PPP) terms, and that the group\u2019s share in the global economy has been steadily shrinking.<\/p>\n

Still, he conceded the G7 \u2013 which includes the US, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan \u2013 remains \u201can important platform.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u201cPeople work there, make decisions, discuss things, and God bless them.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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According to Putin, he is not seeking to rejoin the group, and did not discuss the issue with US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner during talks in the Kremlin about Ukraine earlier this week.<\/p>\n

Putin noted that he had stopped attending the group\u2019s summits even before the Western-backed coup in Kiev in 2014. Moscow was excluded from the then-G8 after Crimea seceded from Ukraine and voted to join Russia in a public referendum.<\/p>\n

In June, Trump suggested<\/a> that kicking Russia out of the group was \u201ca big mistake,\u201d<\/em> arguing that keeping Moscow on the inside might have prevented the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022. At the time, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov agreed \u201cit was a big mistake then to exclude Russia\u201d<\/em> but noted that the club had \u201clost practical significance.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Since its exclusion, Russia has focused on strengthening cooperation on other international platforms, in particular BRICS, which currently accounts for about 46% of the world\u2019s population and over 36% of global GDP, according to estimates by global financial institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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