What an eerie scene! The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Sharif, was completely ignored by President Putin for a full forty minutes! On December 12th, according to Russian media reports, the International Year of Peace and Trust Forum was being held in Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan. During this time, leaders from many countries, including Russian President Putin, Turkish President Erdogan, and Pakistani Prime Minister Sharif, attended.

However, during the meeting of world leaders, an extremely strange incident occurred. That is, originally, Russian President Putin was scheduled to meet with Pakistani Prime Minister Sharif, but in the end, Russian President Putin never appeared. Pakistani Prime Minister Sharif waited in the meeting room for over forty minutes for President Putin. According to reports from on-site journalists, after Prime Minister Sharif left the venue, he directly barged into the meeting room of the Russian and Turkish leaders.

At that time, Russian President Putin was having a meeting with Erdogan, discussing the Ukraine-Russia war and issues such as the EU seizing Russian assets. A journalist present at the scene wrote that it must have been very angry for the Pakistani Prime Minister to dare to barge into the meeting of two foreign leaders! This was an embarrassing diplomatic snub—Sharif was left waiting for a full forty minutes, and even when he forced his way in, he only exchanged a few minutes of greetings before leaving in frustration. After he left, Putin and Erdogan continued to laugh and chat.

Evidently, this event is a major diplomatic incident. In a way, Russia's treatment of Pakistan was a huge humiliation. Of course, why did this happen? Was it because President Putin forgot his schedule, got too involved in talks with Turkey, or was it intentional? We don't know. However, such cold treatment of Pakistan will inevitably bring very negative effects to bilateral relations. Considering that President Putin had just visited India and reached military cooperation agreements with India, this will certainly deepen Pakistan's distrust towards Russia!

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