Geopolitics without the participation of Moscow: in Saudi Arabia, a summit started on the issue of war in Ukraine

Negotiations will last two days and are part of Ukraine's initiative aimed at being supported not only by the main Western supporters, but also by the South countries, which do not want to stand on someone's side in the Russian-Ukrainian war. About it reports Reuters. Ukraine and its allies hope that at a meeting in Jedda of national security advisers and other high -ranking officials from about 40 countries, the key principles of war in Ukraine will be agreed.

At the same time, Russian representatives do not participate in the Summit, although they stated in the Kremlin that they would "closely monitor the negotiations. " However, it is unclear whether negotiations are aimed at developing a joint statement on the Ukrainian issue, but earlier the head of the Presidential Office of Ukraine Andriy Yermak stated that the conversation would be difficult.

"The Ukrainian delegation goes with the Ukrainian" peace formula ", which is offered last year by our president. The war, but also to restore the territorial integrity of our country, as well as to return the world order in accordance with the norms of the UN Charter. So I hope our consultations, our conversations will be successful, "Yermak said. Despite the fact that Russia is a member of the OPEC OPEC OPEC exporting exporter, Saudi Arabia did not call Moscow representatives to negotiate.

Riyad adheres to a fairly difficult line from the beginning of full -scale aggression against Ukraine, but is expected that the results of the meeting of Moscow will still be aware of the Russian Foreign Ministry representative Maria Zakharova initially stated that negotiations within the summit would not be in vain because they will be able to help The event to see a dead end in the "plan of Zelensky".

However, it increased the degree of rhetoric and pretended that the Kremlin was offended by such a decision. as deception and staging. As Reuters wrote, Western officials and analysts said that Saudi Arabian diplomacy played an important role in ensuring China's presence in negotiations. According to a researcher at Baker Krystyan Ulrichsen, China's participation in negotiations is a signal of support for Saudi diplomacy, which relies on other directions of Chinese-Saudi cooperation.

"The participation of China in negotiations is the support of the Saudi version that their organizational skills and the ability to influence relations are different from the western sides," he said. At the same time, the Director of the Chinese Program at the Stimson Center in Washington Yun Sun notes that the presence of China at the summit does not mean that Beijing will eventually agree to the results that Ukraine and its allies seek.