For the first time in a year and a half, the Swiss Foreign Minister is meeting with the Russian Foreign Minister.
The timing of the meeting is no coincidence: Federal President Viola Amherd recently announced with Volodimir Zelensky that she wanted to hold a Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland.
These plans were rejected by Moscow.
Switzerland consistently supports the “anti-Russian line of the collective West” and has lost its role as an “impartial international mediator,” the Russian side said after the announcement. Amherd emphasized even after the Russian rejection: “Switzerland speaks to everyone.”
Legend:
Cassis and Lavrov meet shortly before a meeting of the UN Security Council.
Keystone/Russian Foreign Ministry
Now Switzerland appears to be trying to limit the damage. Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis met his counterpart Sergei Lavrov in New York. The meeting took place shortly before a meeting of the UN Security Council.
Moscow “in principle ready to negotiate”
In an interview with the US television station CBS on Monday, Lavrov said that Moscow would listen to everyone who would not exploit Ukraine for a war against Russia. His country is fundamentally ready to negotiate – but not with the aim of keeping the current government in Kiev in power.
Tagesschau, January 23, 2024, 6 p.m.; agencies/bamfj;lehl
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