withdrawing from participation in the Ukraine peace conference; The number of countries “water” went!
report Mehr News Agency, citing Tass, Radio Azadi coverage service of Ukraine announced that some countries have withdrawn from their plans to attend the Ukrainian peace conference hosted by Switzerland, and thus the number of countries The participants in this conference have been reduced from 93 to 78.
In this report, which was published citing EU diplomats who did not want to be named, the names of the withdrawing countries were not mentioned. According to one of these diplomats, there is still a possibility of an increase in the number of withdrawing countries.
Sergei Nikforov, spokesman for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, refused to reveal the number of countries participating in this conference and said: We do not want the final number (of countries) to announce.
Switzerland is going to host this conference on June 15 and 16 (June 26 and 27) in the mountainous region of Burgenstock. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of this country announced earlier that “Bern” has invited more than 160 diplomatic delegations, including delegations from G7, G20 and BRICS, to this conference.
According to Swiss authorities, Russia has not been invited. Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized that Moscow does not insist on being in a place where it is not welcomed.
According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, this conference “will not go anywhere and Russia does not see a desire to play fair on the part of the West”. Moscow has repeatedly emphasized that it welcomes the negotiation and diplomatic settlement of the conflict with Ukraine.
