Presidential aide Maksim Oreshkin will lead the country’s team in South Africa later this month
Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed presidential aide Maksim Oreshkin as head of the delegation that will represent the country at the upcoming G20 summit in South Africa. Neither Putin nor Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will be attending the event in person.
A former minister of economic development, Oreshkin also serves as Putin’s special envoy for economic cooperation within the BRICS+ group. He is known for his involvement in shaping Russia’s economic response to Western sanctions and for helping manage trade relations with foreign countries.
The Russian delegation will also include Kremlin aides Denis Agafonov and Svetlana Lukash, as well as deputy ministers Aleksandr Pankin and Ivan Chebeskov.
The G20 summit will take place in Johannesburg on November 22-23. South Africa assumed the rotating presidency of the group in December 2024, becoming the first African nation to lead the forum. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has pledged to use his country’s chairmanship to advance Africa and the Global South’s development priorities.
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