A meeting of trade ministers from the Asia-Pacific region ended Sunday without issuing a joint statement due to differences over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a Japanese minister said.
Japan’s trade minister Koichi Hagiuda said the outcome of the two-day meeting in Bangkok, which focused on how to promote economic growth in a post-Covid-19 world, should be reflected in a chairman’s statement.
“There were big differences when coordinating the wording over Russia among the member economies,”…