Kremlin: Biden unlikely to receive offer to join Normandy Four
As the US President Joe Biden’s "so-called Summit for Democracy" excluded Russia, Kremlin says Biden is to be left out of the Normandy Four Format.
Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is unlikely to offer US President Joe Biden to join the Normandy Four talks.
Peskov told Channel One that "he [Biden] is unlikely to receive such an offer from president Putin because it is a self-sufficient format. Although its effectiveness is now very modest due to the position of Kiev, due to the fact that Kiev does not fulfill the Minsk agreements. But still, both Paris and Berlin still believed that this is a self-sufficient format and there is no need to expand it."
The Normandy Four group was formed in June 2014, during the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the D-Day allied landings in the French region of Normandy, when the leaders of Russia, France, Germany, and Ukraine met for the first time to discuss ways to resolve the Donbas conflict. Since then, five summits have been held.
It is worth noting that Biden had invited the leaders of about 110 countries to participate in a virtual Summit for Democracy on December 9 and 10.
The US State Department had published a list of the invited countries, which only included Iraq and "Israel" from the Middle East and excluded the US two main rivals, Russia and China, as well as Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, and the UAE.
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