Igor Ivanov joins appeal for return to diplomacy to reduce ‘elevated risk’ of nuclear conflict
A Russian former foreign minister has joined a call for all sides in the Ukrainian war to return to diplomacy and so reduce “the dramatically elevated risk” of a nuclear conflict.
The statement urged all sides to back a ceasefire and end the “unjustifiable” loss of civilian lives. It was signed by Ivanov and a group of foreign policy heavyweights such as Wolfgang Ischinger, the former chair of the Munich Security Conference, Sam Nunn, the former US senator and co-chair of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, and Des Browne, the former UK defence secretary.
The statement was published as negotiators from Russia and Ukraine met for a third round of bilateral talks on Monday. In advance of the talks both sides sounded more optimistic than before, but the cause for their optimism was unclear. The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, flew to Turkey for talks with Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Turkey has been offering to act as a mediator, and hosted talks between Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s current foreign minister, and his Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Kuleba.
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