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Pedro Sanchez
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Spanish President Pedro Sanchez tests COVID-19 positive, to skip G20 Summit in New Delhi

| @indiablooms | Sep 08, 2023, at 02:41 pm

Spanish President Pedro Sanchez will skip the G20 Meeting in New Delhi after he announced he has tested COVID-19 positive.

Writing on X on Thursday, he announced: "This afternoon I tested positive for COVID and will not be able to travel to New Delhi to attend the G-20 Summit."

"I feel good," he said.

He said his nation will be represented in the meeting by First Vice President Nadia Calvino Santamaria and Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares.

"Spain will be magnificently represented by the First Vice President and Minister of Economic Affairs and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, EU and Cooperation," he wrote on X.

Also Read: Chinese President Xi Jinping to skip G20 Summit in India this week, Premier Li Qiang to attend

He is now the third world leader, apart from China's President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, to skip the meeting.

New Delhi will host the meeting on September 9-10.

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