Ukraine and several Western states walk out on Russian finance minister's speech at IMF meeting
The head of Ukraine's National Bank, Andriy Pyshnyi, and leaders of Western delegations left a plenary session in Bangkok when Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov spoke.
At the International Monetary Fund (IMF) meetings in Bangkok, National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Governor Andriy Pyshnyi and the heads of several Western delegations left the plenary session of the IMFC during the speech by Russia's finance minister, Anton Siluanov. The IMFC is the IMF's International Monetary and Financial Committee, which discusses the fund's policy direction.
The joint walkout by Ukrainian and Western representatives was a diplomatic protest, or demarche, against the appearance of a Russian official at an international financial forum. The available information does not specify how many delegation heads took part or what Siluanov said in his address.
