Rival Cypriot leaders will meet next week with UN chief António Guterres after a rare series of confidence-building steps raised hopes of a diplomatic breakthrough.
During a call with his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Szíjjártó praised Russia for pursuing diplomacy with Washington despite Western Europe’s push for escalation.
The Russian president regards NATO enlargement as the root of the conflict and insists that any peace agreement include formal written guarantees addressing it.
“If Putin is not comfortable with a bilateral meeting, or if everyone wants it to be a trilateral meeting, I don’t mind,” the Ukrainian leader said on Tuesday.
