{"id":662851,"date":"2026-10-31T16:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T16:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/662851\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T16:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T16:40:08","slug":"amid-objections-over-russia-g20-foreign-ministers-skip-photo-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/662851\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid objections over Russia, G20 foreign ministers skip photo-op"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign ministers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-913380\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">G20<\/a> skipped a traditional group photo ahead of their meeting in Atlanta on Friday after European representatives objected to the presence of Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">A US official said the State Department removed the family photo from the official agenda because Washington did not want it to become a spectacle or distraction.<\/p>\n<p>A third of the participants, including Australia and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/article-913385\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canada<\/a>, made clear they opposed the idea of being photographed alongside Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, a Western diplomat said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;In no case will there be a family photo with European partners and Mr. Lavrov together because &#8230; there is no normalcy with Russia,&#8221; German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul told reporters before the first session on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>European officials had earlier suggested there might be two separate pictures &#8211; one with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-912289\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lavrov<\/a> and one without.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Foreign ministers from the G20 skipped a traditional group photo ahead of their meeting in Atlanta on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[39044,53661,17341,42,43,2081,223,1593,40,38,41,39,1032],"class_list":["post-662851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-atlanta","tag-g20","tag-georgia","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-photography","tag-photos","tag-russia","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}