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Swiss Efforts to Be Wasted if Moscow Given Ultimatum After Ukraine Conference - Lavrov

© Sputnik / Aleksey Nikolskyi / Go to the mediabankRussian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a meeting with Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic in Moscow.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a meeting with Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic in Moscow. - Sputnik International, 1920, 12.04.2024
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Swiss efforts made at achieving peace in Ukraine will be wasted if Russia is given ultimatums after the first summit in June, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday.
"First of all, they [organizers of the conference in Switzerland] are not going to invite us. They just blatantly said that they needed to ‘issue a collective ultimatum’ to Russia first. Well, that just blows any chance of any success for this ‘Swiss effort,” Lavrov told a briefing in Minsk.
Lavrov also called giving Moscow ultimatums a “path to nowhere,” adding that Ukraine and the West have no desire “to conduct business in a fair manner.”

Switzerland to Decide on Sending Invitation to Russia to Ukraine Summit ‘Soon’ - Swiss FM

Switzerland will evaluate various statements made by Russia regarding the Ukraine peace summit and will decide on sending an invitation to Moscow in the coming days, Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis said on Friday.

"The fact that yesterday Russian President [Vladimir] Putin mentioned [during a meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko] for the first time the peace conference on Ukraine in Switzerland in June is a good sign. In past, Russian officials, including the Russian ambassador to Switzerland, said that Russia was not interested in it. We will analyze the various reactions and decide the best steps to take in the coming days," Cassis told a briefing, when asked if Switzerland plans to invite Russia and Belarus to the conference in June.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Switzerland's President and head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs Ignazio Cassis attend a meeting on the sidelines of the U.S.-Russia talks in Geneva, Switzerland - Sputnik International, 1920, 10.04.2024
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Russia Skips Swiss-Held Ukraine Conference as Bern Asserts 'No Peace Possible Without Moscow'

The Swiss government has decided to hold a peace conference on Ukraine in Burgenstock in June, Swiss President Viola Amherd said on Wednesday.

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