Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday that his country would attend talks on Ukraine that are set to be held in Saudi Arabia this weekend only if Russia is invited.
“If there’s acceptance from both Ukraine and Russia to look for solutions to achieve peace, we’ll participate,” Lopez Obrador said, according to Reuters. “We don’t want the Russia-Ukraine war to continue, it’s very irrational … The only thing that benefits from it is the war industry.”
While being billed as peace talks, Russia has not been invited to the summit in Saudi Arabia. Nations that are not aligned with the US and NATO on the war have been invited, including India, Brazil, and China, but it’s not clear at this point which countries will attend.
Ukraine and its Western backers intend to use the summit to try and convince non-aligned nations to adopt Kyiv’s demands for peace, which include a full Russian withdrawal from all territory that’s been captured, a non-starter for negotiations with Moscow.
Ukraine is also demanding Russia cede Crimea, which has been controlled by Moscow since 2014 and is populated by people who are happy they are part of the Russian Federation.
For their part, Russia insists any future peace deal must recognize the territory it has annexed in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporozhzhia, demonstrating how far apart the two sides are. Russia said that it would monitor the talks in Saudi Arabia this weekend.
“Undoubtedly, Russia will keep an eye on this meeting. We’d have to fully understand what goals are being set and what the organizers actually plan to talk about. We have repeatedly said that any attempts to somehow contribute to a peaceful settlement deserve a positive assessment,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
Peskov added that a peace deal with the Ukrainian government at this time was “impossible” as long as Ukraine is “used exclusively as a tool in the collective West’s war against Russia.”
While being billed as peace talks, Russia has not been invited to the summit in Saudi Arabia
“hey bin-Laden i have an extra invitation here, should we invite the Russians?”
“no bin-Saidi lets invite the Mexicans instead!”
What a thoroughly pointless and useless “peace talks “. The Saudis have nothing better to do than to massage Ukraine’s ego ?
OR their own ego?
There will be no peace talks including Russia until Ukraine is utterly destroyed. The Uke-Nazis / Neocons / MIC / NATO wanted a war …. they got a war.
Envoys from nations including the United States, Brazil, China and India have been invited, but it was not clear who would attend, the diplomats said.
Now why would one of the combatants be invited but not Russia?
Could be China is the impetus. She can’t front it on account of her relationship with Russia, so she has MBS host a congeries of 2nd tier powers to sell Zelensky on the futility of his position and the immensity of suffering caused by his allying with nazi and neocon scum and together with a plum should he abandon them.
Ukraine peace talk without Russia…!? Seems to be another NATO meeting with some non-NATO countries hosted by US to create a joined propaganda against Russia…!
Mexico wants to join BRICS.
This demand likely has a lot to do with the upcoming meeting this month in South Africa and Mexico trying to “besties” with Russia.
Without Russia???
Of course, the victor has nothing to say, all is about total surrender, total=unconditional.
Mexico was always a pleaser, ever since the Spanish were kicked out.
The little dog knows his place, not like the Ukrainians who trust the big dog would not bite.
Good for Mexico.
Biden and his wrecking team is determined to get their WW III AT ALL COSTS. Die IDIOCY of the loser to pretend wanting to negotiate by demanding practically unconditional surrender from the victor is about as insane as it gets. It is proof that Biden and all the criminal neocons in DC want total war. They must believe they can concentrate a nuclear war on the European continent. How else can one explain such insanity?