Chief Of Staff-After Jeddah Advisers To Hold 2nd Meeting In 4-6 Wks

Wires carrying comments from the Chief of Staff to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Says that 'participant of weekend talks in Saudi Arabia agreed to hold another meeting of political advisers in one to one-and-a-half months.' Claims that 'all countries present at talks fully supported [the] independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine.'

• Chief of Staff: 'No other peace initiatives apart from Ukraine's were discussed at talks in Jeddah...Participants are working on a draft framework document to be adopted at a future peace summit.'
• Acknowledges that a 'lack of agreement remained between participants on some points of Ukraine's 'peace formula', discussion continues.'
• Says that the meeting was a 'huge blow' to Russia, and that Moscow 'made efforts to disrupt it'.
• The attendance of a Chinese peace envoy has garnered much attention in Ukraine and internationally as Kyiv seeks to bolster its support from non-Western aligned nations. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov called the meeting part of “futile, doomed efforts” from the West.