JEDDAH SUMMIT DEMANDS RUSSIAN TROOPS DEPARTURE FROM UKRAINE

Meeting in the Saudi city of Jeddah, a high-level meeting involving representatives of 40 countries (without the presence of Russia) began today demanding the withdrawal of all Russian armed forces from Ukraine. The United States and China are attending the two-day meeting.

At this summit, the president, Volodimir Zelensky, presented a peace plan for Ukraine consisting of 10 points

  The Jeddah meeting follows talks in Copenhagen in June that were designed to be informal and did not yield an official statement, and the Ukrainian source said the 10-point formula “received more support than in Copenhagen.”

US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan is leading Washington's delegation to the Saudi city, a senior White House official said.

The meeting highlights Saudi Arabia's "readiness to exert its good offices to contribute to reaching a solution that will result in permanent peace," the official Saudi Press Agency said Friday.

In May, the Kingdom hosted Zelensky at an Arab summit also in Jeddah, where he accused some leaders of turning "a blind eye" to the horrors of Russia's invasion.

Zelenskyy said he hoped the initiative will lead to a “peace summit” of world leaders this autumn to endorse the principles, which he believed should be based on Kyiv’s 10-point formula for a settlement.

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