Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a ceremony to award researchers and explorers of the Antarctic continent, in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 5, 2014.
Left Out Of G7 Summit, Putin Wishes World Leaders "Bon Appetit" -- Reuters
(Reuters) - Vladimir Putin, shut out of a G7 summit over Russia's role in Ukraine, parried the snub on Thursday with a terse message for world leaders who lunched without him in Brussels on Thursday: "Bon appetit".
Putin should have been hosting the heads of leading industrialized nations at a summit of the G8 in the Black Sea resort of Sochi this week.
But the G7 nations scotched those plans in protest against Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region in March, and the leaders of the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Italy and Japan held their summit without him.
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My Comment: At least he is invited to having supper with the French President .... Two-dinner Hollande hosts Obama and Putin seeking Ukraine thaw -- Reuters
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