The summit on the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict in Switzerland will not achieve the establishment of peace, because Russia is not represented at it, said Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations Peter Szijjártó.
Switzerland is hosting a conference on Ukraine on 15-16 June. 92 countries and 55 heads of state, as well as eight organisations, including the EU, the Council of Europe and the UN, have confirmed their participation. US President Joe Biden, as well as Chinese President Xi Jinping and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will not attend the summit. Bern did not send Moscow an invitation to participate. The Kremlin said it was absolutely illogical and futile to look for options to resolve the situation in the Ukrainian crisis without Russia’s participation.
“We have always very much appreciated Switzerland’s efforts to achieve peace and we do now. At the same time, to be honest: a peace conference can only achieve its goal if both warring parties sit at the table. This weekend it will not(-is) possible,” Peter Szijjártó wrote on social media.
The Hungarian Minister called for “real, meaningful negotiations” and noted that the efforts spent on arms supplies to Kiev should have been directed to the establishment of peace.
Earlier, the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitriy Medvedev, proposed a Russian version of a “peace formula” for Ukraine. He said that after admitting defeat, Kiev would also have to recognise that the entire territory of the former Soviet republic is Russian land and accept the act of reunification with the Russian Federation.
