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The Kremlin stated that the talks planned for 10-11 November in Abu Dhabi regarding the war in Ukraine will take place in a tripartite format of the United States-Ukraine-Russia without Europe’s participation. This was said on Monday, 9 November, to Russian journalists by the press secretary to the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov.
According to him, European representatives will not participate directly in the meeting.
“As for the presence of Europeans, you know that there are channels of communication between Americans and Europeans, and between Ukrainians and Europeans, and they, probably, are building their own coordination mechanism,” Peskov said.
Despite Moscow’s statements, “Suhospilne” citing an EU official writes that the European Union will be represented at the negotiations in the UAE by a joint delegation of the European Commission and the European Council, and it will also include representatives of NATO and Germany.
Meanwhile a source at the Ukrainian delegation said that for now it is “not fully clear” in what exact format Europeans will participate in the Abu Dhabi talks.
The French newspaper Le Monde writes that the European delegation will include:
from France — Emmanuel Bonne, Chief of Staff to the President of the Republic at the Élysée Palace;
from Germany — Friedrich Merz’s diplomatic adviser Günther Sautter;
from the United Kingdom — National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell,
from the European Commission — Ursula von der Leyen’s Chief of Staff Björk (Bjørn) [note: transliteration kept as in source: Bjor].
According to Suhospilne, NATO in Abu Dhabi will be represented by the Alliance Secretary General’s Chief of Staff Jeffrey Van LEuven.
Recently France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian stated that “France will be in Abu Dhabi to take part in these discussions,” but did not specify in what format Europeans would join the negotiations.
Today the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen stated, without details, that the EU will be represented at the meeting in the Emirates.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, on the eve of the talks, named security guarantees for Ukraine and the future architecture of European security as one of the key issues of the Abu Dhabi 10-11 November discussions. He said that the sides have advanced in discussing what this system could look like after the war, but no final agreements have been reached yet.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday that the discussions at the talks would primarily cover “security questions of Russia, Ukraine, and the region as a whole.” He added that the sides would agree on “principles that may be approved at the conclusion of the consultations on a full settlement of the conflict in Ukraine.”
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