In August, Saudi Arabia will organize a peace meeting backed by Ukraine and invite India
In August, Saudi Arabia will organize a peace meeting backed by Ukraine and invite India
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Early in August, Saudi Arabia will play home to a peace summit hosted by Ukraine in an effort to find a method to begin talks about Russia’s war against the nation, according to an official.
The talks were not immediately acknowledged by the kingdom or Kiev.
The person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he had not been given permission to publicly discuss the conference, stated that it will take place in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah.
According to the official, Ukraine will attend the summit together with Brazil, India, South Africa, and several other nations. According to the person, a senior representative of US Vice President Joe Biden’s office is also anticipated to attend.
The conference, according to the official who talked with the AP, will come following negotiations that were held in Copenhagen in June.
The meetings are being held in Saudi Arabia at a time when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was in Jeddah for the Arab League summit in May, trying to persuade those countries to support Kiev. Due in part to their close military and economic links to Moscow, Arab countries have mostly maintained their neutrality ever since Russia started its assault on Ukraine in February 2022.
As a member of OPEC, Saudi Arabia has also preserved a close ties with Russia. Biden and American senators are upset about the organization’s oil output curbs, which came as Moscow’s assault on Ukraine drove up energy costs.
Hosting these discussions, however, also helps to increase the visibility of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has worked to defuse tensions with Iran and advance a peaceful resolution to the kingdom’s protracted conflict in Yemen. The assassination and dismemberment of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, which US intelligence services believe Prince Mohammed ordered, has also soured relations between Riyadh and the West.
