US President Joe Biden plans to skip the Ukrainian peace summit because of a fundraiser in Hollywood. About this with reference to sources on May 23 reported at Bloomberg.
Switzerland has scheduled a meeting for June 15-16. However, Biden probably at this time will be busy raising funds for the election campaign in California. He will be joined by George Clooney, Julia Roberts and other stars.
The US leader is scheduled to fly after the G-7 meeting in Italy to Los Angeles for a fundraiser on June 15. Former President Barack Obama and TV host Jimmy Kimmel will also join him. Biden is seeking to overcome his rival Donald Trump's lead in key states ahead of the November election.
However, approximately 70 countries will participate in the summit. In particular, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and probably Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will be present. However, China will not be present at the meeting, which, along with several other countries, insisted on involving the Russian Federation in the process. Beijing has long been seen as crucial to the process, given its close ties to Moscow, but has so far skipped most of the meetings ahead of the summit. Ukraine and its allies do not want to engage with Moscow until a set of principles is agreed upon that will define any future peace settlement. The Swiss summit was initially conceived as a first step towards this goal.
Russia is also reportedly pushing to "stay away" from the Asia, Africa and South America summit. According to the publication, President Vladimir Putin, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and other officials met and called colleagues "from dozens of countries from India to the tiny Comoros Islands" to prevent their participation.
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