Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi announced a new round of negotiations with US emissaries on ending the war, which is to take place this Saturday in the United States.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi announced on Thursday that a new round of negotiations with emissaries of the US administration on ending the war in Ukraine should take place this Saturday in the United States, reported the British station BBC and the AFP agency.
In a post on social networks, Zelenskyi added that the Ukrainian team, specifically its political part, is already on its way to the meeting venue and “we expect a meeting in the United States this Saturday.”
Pause in tripartite negotiations
Tripartite talks between Ukraine, the US and Russia have been postponed indefinitely because of the war in the Middle East. “There was a pause in the negotiations, and it’s time to end it,” Zelensky said. According to him, it is also important that there are signals from the American side about the readiness of the US to continue working in the existing negotiating formats after the end of the Russian war against Ukraine.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters a few days ago that the place and time of the new tripartite meeting had not yet been definitively determined, but “maybe it will be in the foreseeable future.” In an interview with Thursday’s edition of the Russian daily Izvestia, Peskov spoke of a “pause” in the negotiations.
Previous negotiations in Abu Dhabi and Geneva
On Wednesday, the spokesman of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Heorhiy Tychy, said that although the trilateral negotiations have been suspended, the negotiating teams continue to communicate with each other on a daily basis.
So far, three rounds of tripartite peace talks have taken place with the direct participation of the delegations of Ukraine, Russia and the USA – two in Abu Dhabi (January 23-24 and February 4-5) and one in Geneva (February 17-18). The next round was originally planned for March 5-9 again in Abu Dhabi, but it was postponed due to the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East.
