Czaputowicz was speaking at a press conference in New York on Thursday after a UN Security Council session chaired by Poland.
He was asked by public broadcaster Polish Radio whether Russia should be reinstated to the G7, an inter-governmental political forum from which it was excluded after Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region in 2014.
Czaputowicz replied: “If Russia changed its policy, only then would there be grounds to change the position of the West. We stand for maintaining unity within the West and waiting for Russia to change its position.”
Czaputowicz added that US President Donald Trump’s suggestion earlier this year that it would be “appropriate” to have Russia rejoin what used to be the G8 was “intended to test the position of Russia.”
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Source: IAR