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| Russian Foreign Ministry rules out Russia's participation in new summit on Ukraine |
| 2024-07-12 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The Russian side does not intend to participate in a new summit on Ukraine, including because of attempts to raise the ultimatum "peace formula" of the head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, at future meetings. This was stated on July 11 by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Mikhail Galuzin. “We are aware of the intentions of the Kiev regime and its Western curators to ‘rehabilitate’ themselves for the failed ‘peace summit’ in Burgenstock, Switzerland, in mid-June of this year and to try to hold a similar event,” the diplomat noted. At the same time, he emphasized that the content of the meeting, to which they even think of inviting Russia, is known in advance. Galuzin noted that such events are organized in the hope of pushing through the absolutely "dead-end and ultimatum" Zelensky formula, while ignoring other initiatives to resolve the Ukrainian crisis. "This is yet another instance of fraud. We do not accept such ultimatums and do not intend to participate in such 'summits'," Lenta.ru quoted a representative of the Foreign Ministry as saying. As reported by the Regnum news agency, the conference on Ukraine in Switzerland, to which representatives of Russia were not invited, was held in Bürgenstock on June 15-16. Russian President Vladimir Putin called this "peace" conference a freak show. He noted that its organizers admit that this issue cannot be resolved without Russia, but at the same time they do not invite its representatives to the event. On July 10, Bloomberg reported, citing sources, that Ukraine intends to hold a second conference dedicated to resolving the conflict, to which it plans to invite Russia. Kiev hopes to do this before the presidential elections in the United States, fearing the likely return to the White House of former President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly stated his determination to end the conflict in Ukraine as soon as possible, the publication's sources noted. At the same time, Kyiv, based on the far from successful results of the conference in Switzerland, now intends to use the theses outlined at that time on nuclear and food security as issues on which it would be possible to establish initial contact with Russia. According to sources, the second conference on Ukraine after the Swiss summit may be held in Saudi Arabia. This is one of the possible options; there are no specific decisions yet on the date and format of the conference on Ukraine. The Russian side has repeatedly declared its readiness for a peaceful settlement of the Ukrainian crisis, taking into account its interests, the goals outlined within the framework of the SVO, and new territorial realities. On June 14, at a meeting with the leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Putin named the conditions under which Moscow is ready to negotiate an end to the conflict in Ukraine. The head of state emphasized the need for the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the territory of the DPR and LPR, the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions, as well as the official renunciation of Kiev's plans to join NATO. |
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