Foreign Ministers of countries associated in Weimar+ format in Antalya, Turkey, met with their Ukrainian departmental colleague. They discussed the preparations of Ukraine for potential Thursday peace negotiations with Russia. This was announced on Thursday by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, writes TASR according to the report of PAP.
According to the announcement of this resort on the Platform X, the heads of the Poland, Germany, France and Ukraine diplomacy resorts met, ie Radoslaw Sikorski, Johann Wadephul, Jean-Naël Barrot and Andrij Sybiha to the margins of informal NATO State Ministers in Antalya. At the meeting, they also spoke about current efforts aimed at achieving a fair and permanent peace between Russia and Ukraine.
A format called the Weimar Triangle brings together Poland, Germany and France, while Weimar+ is extended to other large European states, recalls PAP. In Istanbul, direct negotiations between the Ukrainian and Russian delegation should start on Thursday afternoon. This will be the first direct meeting of the opposing parties since March 2022. Their implementation was proposed last Sunday by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyj then called for a personal meeting in Turkey. However, the Russian leader refused to participate in the negotiations. Greeny, who negotiated on Thursday in Ankara with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, subsequently announced that he would not go to Istanbul himself, but sent a delegation led by Minister of Defense Rusto UME.
