This week, the parties have already discussed the possibility of holding such a meeting and its conditions, the diplomat recalled.
“A fundamental agreement was reached on the conduct of the leaders of the leaders in Turkey. The negotiation groups play an important role here. Since we continue to discuss this issue more balanced, I see a readiness for the meeting,” Fidan explained.
He expressed confidence that a temporary decision would appear if all parties will continue in the same spirit. Türkiye, according to the Foreign Minister, is working on the creation of appropriate conditions.
During the third round of negotiations held in Istanbul on July 23, Ukraine invited the Russian side to hold meeting at the level of leaders with the participation of Turkish President Recep Erdogan and US President Donald Trump Until the end of August. According to Erdogan, he will discuss this issue with Trump and Putin within a week.
Trump before flying to Scotland on July 25 told reporters that the meeting would be, but it was supposed to take place “three months ago”.
Context
The probability of negotiations between Ukraine and the Russian Federation at the level of leaders was discussed in early May before the first round of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations in Turkey. On the night of May 11, after the ultimatum of European countries to stop fire in Ukraine, Putin suggested renewing direct negotiations on the war “without preliminary conditions” in Istanbul on May 15. The President of Ukraine agreed to meet with Putin and stated that he would personally wait for him in Turkey on May 15.
Zelensky also called the President of the US president in peace negotiations a faithful idea. Trump for his part did not exclude that he could take part in them.
Kremlin In response, he was silenthaving approved the composition of the delegation Only at night of May 14. The illegitimate President of the Russian Federation did not go to a meeting in Turkey, he sent a low -level delegation (it was headed by Putin's assistant Vladimir Medinsky), which Zelensky He called Slaboro.
On June 2, the second round of negotiations between Ukraine and the Russian Federation was held in Istanbul. The Ukrainian delegation invited the aggressor to a meeting at the Leaders level. But spIker of the illegitimate President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov rejected the probability of a tripartite meeting of Putin, Zelensky and Trump in the near future, explaining this by the fact that it is supposedly necessary to reach agreements at the technical level.
On June 19, Putin made a meeting with Zelensky at the final stage of negotiations to “put an end”.
