lhe summit for peace in Ukraine that will be held this Saturday and Sunday in Switzerland will raise to the highest international political level the question of how to incorporate Russia into real political negotiations to end the war that has been going on for almost twenty-eight months with its neighbor, the Swiss Government said this Monday.
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The meeting will take place in a hotel complex located in a remote area of the center of the country, in order to allow ninety national delegations that have announced their presence -about half led by heads of state- work for two days away from the media siege and surrounded by maximum security measures.
“These issues represent measures of trust that are fundamental to building the grammar of peace, beyond the different points of view on this war and that we are willing to confront in Bürgestock,” Cassis detailed, referring to the location of the conference.
Asked about the possibilities of this conference serving to build bridges for dialogue, the Foreign Minister commented that “no one can expect guarantees even before the conference begins, which does not even include the two parties that are facing each other in this war.” .
The Swiss Government, as host and organizer, was responsible for sending the invitations, but refrained from sending one to the Russian Government, which had previously rejected the plan for this meeting and announced that it would not participate in any way.
Cassis recalled that position to justify Russia not having received an invitation, but acknowledged for the first time that the Ukrainian government had also made it clear that it was not willing to sit at the same table as its aggressors.
In this regard, the minister emphasized that any peace process “will only be successful if all parties participate,” but that this spirit of inclusion could not be applied from the first moment.
He specified that Russia’s willingness to participate will be the prior condition to launching a real peace process, which – he acknowledged – may take weeks or months.
In recent weeks, coinciding with the most intense stage of preparations, Switzerland has suffered significant cyber attacks, revealed President Amherd, who said that the country is prepared for these eventualities, as well as for other types of threats, including those affecting critical infrastructures.
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