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Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced that Russia will not participate in the proposed “peace summits” regarding Ukraine, stressing that these summits have nothing to do with the settlement.
“Russian representatives will not participate in any meetings within the framework of the Bürgenstock Process (in Switzerland) and do not intend to participate, and this process itself has nothing to do with the settlement,” Zakharova commented on the ministry’s website.
Zakharova noted that the “so-called second summit pursues the same goal – to push the absolutely unworkable “Zelensky formula” as the only alternative basis for resolving the conflict, to gain its support from the world majority, and to present Russia with an ultimatum to surrender, and therefore we do not participate in such summits.”
According to Zakharova, Moscow does not abandon the political and diplomatic settlement of the crisis and is ready to discuss really serious proposals that take into account the situation “on the ground”, emerging geopolitical realities and the corresponding initiative formulated by President Vladimir Putin on June 14.
On July 11, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin confirmed that Russia will not participate in the new summit scheduled to be held on the Ukrainian crisis, stressing that Moscow does not accept what he described as “ultimatums.”
“We know the intentions of the Kiev regime and Western coordinators, who are trying to revive the failed Bürgenstock summit in Switzerland in mid-June, and are thinking of holding a similar event and possibly inviting Russia,” Galuzin told Sputnik.
