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United States President Joe Biden on Wednesday (11/16) morning held a meeting with several country leaders to discuss the explosion and the death toll from the fall of a Russian missile on Polish territory, which borders Ukraine. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali.

Previously, G20 leaders and world bodies were scheduled to plant trees in the mangroves on Wednesday morning, but the event was postponed due to the meeting Biden was hosting.

President Joko Widodo, who arrived at the scene around 7 a.m. WITA and waited for the other leaders, still planted several mangrove trees and offered a private visit to the journalists and guests present.

Asked by journalists about the situation in Poland and if he had received any information about it, Jokowi replied: “The G20 is an economic forum, a financial forum and a diplomatic forum, not a political forum. So here we are going to talk about economics.

White House officials said some of the leaders present at the meeting with Biden were German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel. Also present at the meeting were Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.

Biden is due to speak on the outcome of that meeting before continuing with the G20 summit and returning to the United States at noon on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was with Biden’s entourage, tweeted that from Bali he spoke to Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba about the explosions. in eastern Poland.

“We promise to coordinate closely in the coming days as the investigation into this matter is ongoing, and we will determine the next steps.” [em/rs]