The Irish Times view on recent talks on Ukraine: trying to find a way forward via IrishTimesOpEd
Sun Aug 13 2023 - 20:14
The recent talks in Jeddah about the war in Ukraine ended without a joint statement from the more than 40 participating governments and was followed by more days of slaughter on the battlefield. But the meeting was an important step in the search for an international consensus on how to bring the conflict to an end without violating Ukraine’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Ukraine took part in the meeting, which was convened by Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy addressed an Arab League summit in Jeddah last May. Russia was not invited and Moscow dismissed the event as a doomed attempt to swing the Global South behind Ukraine.
Many of the countries from the Global South which have declined to take sides in the war joined Ukraine and its western backers in Jeddah. China, which stayed away from talks in Copenhagen two months ago, sent its special envoy on Eurasian affairs Li Hui to the Saudi meeting. There is no prospect of peace negotiations until it becomes clear how successful Ukraine’s counteroffensive has been. And each side has set out preconditions for the start of talks. Kyiv has ruled out any peace talks until Russia withdraws all its forces from Ukrainian territory. Moscow says it will not start talks until Kyiv recognises Russia’s claim to the Ukrainian territories it has annexed, including places its military does not control.
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