During negotiations between the United States and the Russian Federation at the end of the Russian War against Ukraine, Saudi Arabia’s plan was to act as a mediator.
On February 18, negotiations between Russia and the United States at the end of the Russian Federation war against Ukraine should begin with the capital of Saudi Arabia, ER-Riyde. The Ukrainian delegation will not participate in them. The compositions of the delegations are expected to be symmetrical: the heads of foreign policy departments (Marco Rubio and Sergey Lavrov), external policy advisors to presidents (Michael Walz and Yuri Ushakov), the head of the Foreign Intelligence (John Retcliffe and Sergey Naryshkin).
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Busions in Saudi Arabia will be one of the first personal discussions at a high level between United States and Russia officials in recent years. They should ahead of the US president Donald Trump with the Russian dictator.
Sergei Lavrov has managed to say that Moscow does not take into account the possibility of any territorial concessions in the negotiation framework-first that it should resolve Russian-related issues in Ukraine and the Moscow patriarchate prohibition .
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In particular, countries such as China and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have suggested to provide a platform for negotiations between the United States and the Russian Federation. Saudi Arabia was able to build trust in Putin, not recognizing the area of the International Criminal Court in the Hague, which in 2023 issued a warrant of arrest by the Russian dictator, which accused him of war crimes in Ukraine. Putin freely visits Saudi Arabia without being arrested.
Saudi Arabia is also acting as a mediator in exchange of prisoners between Russia and Ukraine, who helped her gain the trust of both parties.
During the recent exchange of prisoners, also fixed by Riyadh, Russia released American teacher Mark Fogel.
According to a special United States representative in the Middle East, Steve Whitkoff, the main role in the release of Vogel, who has been in prison for more than three years, has been played by hereditary prince of Saudi Arabia Muhammad bin Salman.
Saudi Arabia repeatedly accepted both Zelensky and Putin, and also promoted the conclusion of a sustainable peace agreement between the countries. In the morning of 2023, Riyadh organized an international GIDD meeting with the participation of representatives of many states.
Zelensky is about to
Vladimir Zelensky also aims to visit Saudi Arabia. According to Russia in Saudi Arabia, according to official numbers, it should not be any contacts between Russia and Ukraine. “Ukraine will not take part in these negotiations. Ukraine knows nothing about it. Ukraine cites any negotiations about Ukraine without Ukraine as unsuccessful, and we can’t recognize any agreements about us without us, “said Vladimir Zelensky.
In Riyadh, there is already a Ukrainian delegation chaired by the Economics Minister, Yulia Sviridenko, who is preparing a visit to Zelensky. The visit of the President of Ukraine in Saudi Arabia was preparing a month ago. In the focus of Zelensky’s attention in Riyadh there will be bilateral relations, in particular infrastructure and economic projects, as well as joint activities of the two countries aimed at food security.
Source: korrespondent
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