Turkiye to host a gathering of allies to discuss peace in Ukraine

Children holding paper sheets with colors of Ukrainian flag in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, March 13, 2022. [Riccardo De Luca – Anadolu Agency]

Turkiye will host the third international gathering aimed at building support for the Global Peace Summit that Ukraine plans to hold later this year, Bloomberg reports.

According to the report, the meeting is tentatively scheduled for later in October in Istanbul and will follow similar gatherings in Denmark in June and in Saudi Arabia in August, the news outlet said.

The previous summit in Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah gathered representatives from some 40 countries, including Ukraine and its allies, nations of the Global South and China, but excluding Russia.

According to Bloomberg, Kyiv and its Western partners want to use the upcoming meeting to engage neutral countries, such as Brazil and India, in the peace settlement efforts.

Russia is reportedly not invited to Istanbul and has branded the previous gatherings as illegitimate.

The agenda of the gathering in Turkiye is said to focus on President Volodymyr Zelensky’s peace formula and on the upcoming peace summit.

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