Delegates walk out on Russian speaker at Apec meet

Delegates from the United States and four other nations staged a walkout when a representative from Russia began his opening remarks at a meeting of trade ministers of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group in the Thai capital, officials said.

A Japanese official said Japan’s Trade Minister Koichi Hagiuda and his counterparts from the US, Australia, New Zealand and Canada yesterday walked out of the meeting to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.