German Chancellor Angela Merkel after the refusal of the Council of the European Union (EU) to organize a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin told about his proposal to negotiate in the format of “without leaders”. Reports about it Bloomberg.
According to her, final formats and negotiation conditions with Moscow will still be developed, but they will be organized without the participation of heads of state.
previously became known that in the European Union rejected the idea to invite Putin to meet with the leaders of the European Union countries. In addition, the heads of state and the Government of the EU at the Summit in Brussels requested the EU foreign policy service under the leadership of Josepa Burlel to explore the possibility of introducing new sanctions against Russia.
The initiative of the meeting with Putin was put forward by the leaders of Germany and France Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron on June 23. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov suggested that Putin’s invitation idea may be associated with the past meeting of the Russian and American leaders in Geneva. The diplomat stressed that, probably, the Geneva negotiations were perceived in Brussels as a signal to the fact that “now you can also show your independence a little.”