Russia Says Oil Market Isn’t on Agenda for G-20 Leaders’ Call
- Thursday’s summit will address economic fallout of pandemic
- U.S. has called on Saudis to rein in plans to flood oil market
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Russia said the agenda for the G-20 summit on Thursday doesn’t include a discussion of the oil market, even after crude prices collapsed to the lowest in almost two decades.
“The topic of oil -- no,” Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, told reporters. That runs counter to earlier suggestions that the market would likely be discussed on the G-20 conference call, which is being held to better coordinate the global response to the coronavirus pandemic.