Visiting Fellow, Centre for European Studies, Australian National University
I am a former Australian diplomat who covered Eastern Europe from Moscow (twice, in the USSR and later Russia), Belgrade, London and Canberra. I also served as High Commissioner in Nigeria and Ghana. Prior to joining DFAT I was a postgraduate researcher and tutor in Soviet history and politics at the ANU.
With Russia not attending, what can this weekend’s Ukraine peace summit achieve?
Jun 13, 2024 06:04 am UTC|
The Summit on Peace in Ukraine, hosted by Switzerland this weekend, is not a peace conference in the usual sense. Russia, which has dismissed it as irrelevant, wont participate. And any summit aimed at ending the war cant...