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Monday April 11, 2022 8:57 p.m. IWST

Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —

Minister of Foreign Affairs CanadaMélanie Joly, meets the President of Indonesia, Joko Widodoin the midst of the G20 controversy over Western threats against the presence of the president Russia, Vladimir Poutine on this forum.

Joly visited Merdeka Palace in Jakarta on Monday (11/4). Before meeting Jokowi, he first met Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi and signed a number of cooperation agreements.

“At the previous meeting, the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs once again expressed Canada’s support for the presidency. [G20] Indonesia,” Retno said in an official statement.

Canada, he continued, expressed its commitment to continue communicating with Indonesia in a difficult context due to the war raging in Eastern Europe.

Apart from that, Retno also added that Indonesia received similar support from all G20 member countries.

“That is why we want this support to come to fruition, we are working together so that once again the G20 can work optimally in the midst of this difficult situation,” he said.

During the meeting, Indonesia and Canada also discussed cooperation in the economic sector.

Retno said that the trade value between Canada and Indonesia in 2021 will increase quite significantly by almost 30 percent and the investment value will also increase by almost 4 percent.

Apart from this, Jokowi also stressed the importance for the two countries to continue to strengthen their cooperative relations in the economic sector. One of them is to intensify negotiations on the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), negotiations for which began last March.

“The president said the negotiations should be accelerated,” Retno said.

Indonesia’s G20 presidency has been in the spotlight after the country decided to invite all G20 members, including Russia.

Before the statement was released, the Russian Embassy in Jakarta said that President Vladimir Putin would attend the G20 event.

The West then responded with various threats. The United States threatened not to attend the forum, while Australia admitted it did not want to be at the same table as Putin.

Canada also said Russia’s presence at the forum would be a major problem for many countries, including its own.

“(The G20 is about) how we manage and encourage global economic growth. Russia, with its illegal invasion of Ukraine, is hindering economic growth for everyone in the world,” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reportedly said . AFP at the end of last March.

(isa/bac)