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sl8

(16,245 posts)
Fri Jun 14, 2024, 05:07 AM Jun 2024

A peace summit for Ukraine opens in Switzerland, but Russia won't be taking part

https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-switzerland-summit-peace-burgenstock-zelenskyy-5df2e62407ed50dc324965ad66e3f9ae
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A peace summit for Ukraine opens in Switzerland, but Russia won’t be taking part

BY JAMEY KEATEN
Updated 4:17 AM EDT, June 14, 2024

GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland will host scores of world leaders this weekend to try to map out first steps toward peace in Ukraine even though Russia, which launched the ongoing war, won’t take part.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government didn’t want Russia involved, and the Swiss — aware of Moscow’s reservations about the talks — didn’t invite Russia. The Swiss insist Russia must be involved at some point, and hope it will join the process one day. Ukrainians, too, are considering that possibility.

The conference, underpinned by elements of a 10-point peace formula presented by Zelenskyy in late 2022, is unlikely to produce major results and is seen as a largely symbolic effort on the part of Kyiv to rally the international community and project strength against its better armed and numbered adversary.

But the question looming over the summit will be how the two countries can move back from the brink and eventually silence the guns in a war that has cost hundreds of billions of dollars and caused hundreds and thousands of deaths and injuries, without Moscow attending.

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Associated Press writers Samya Kullab in Kyiv, Ukraine; Aamer Madhani in Washington; and Jim Heintz in Tallinn, Estonia, contributed to this report.

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A peace summit for Ukraine opens in Switzerland, but Russia won't be taking part (Original Post) sl8 Jun 2024 OP
Slightly different take on the summit. SleeplessinSoCal Jun 2024 #1
The source cited in the OP did mention that ruzzia was not invited. niyad Jun 2024 #3
but the overall take was Russia not being included... SleeplessinSoCal Jun 2024 #4
All putler has to do is stop the war, bring all his surviving troops home, niyad Jun 2024 #2

SleeplessinSoCal

(9,678 posts)
1. Slightly different take on the summit.
Sat Jun 15, 2024, 07:45 AM
Jun 2024

Russia has not been invited.

"This weekend, a secluded Swiss resort above Lake Lucerne will be transformed as dozens of world leaders and thousands of soldiers and police descend on Bürgenstock.

More than 90 countries and global institutions are attending the event, which aims to discuss basic principles for ending the conflict in Ukraine.

The Swiss hope that the Ukraine summit might produce the first tentative sketch marks for a peace process, some 28 months after Russia invaded its neighbour.

It is the biggest gathering for Ukraine since the full-scale invasion...."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv22zlq4y20o

SleeplessinSoCal

(9,678 posts)
4. but the overall take was Russia not being included...
Sun Jun 16, 2024, 12:40 AM
Jun 2024

... likely wouldn't be productive. That was my sense of it anyway.

niyad

(120,046 posts)
2. All putler has to do is stop the war, bring all his surviving troops home,
Sat Jun 15, 2024, 11:47 PM
Jun 2024

stop invading other countries. He can do that all by himself, does not have to go to a peace conference. The sane part of the world would be relieved.

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