Author: Steven Sahiounie

Türkiye’s foreign minister will visit Saudi Arabia on April 28-29 to attend a meeting of the Gaza Contact Group, which was formed by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Arab League to push for a cease-fire in the Palestinian enclave. Hakan Fidan will also hold bilateral meetings with his counterparts during his visit to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s capital, according to diplomatic sources. The meetings will focus on ways to stop the ongoing war in Gaza and how a two-state solution can be implemented, the sources said. The contact group was established at a joint summit of the OIC…

No conditions exist for talks between Moscow and Kiev at this time, therefore, the special military operation continues, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. “So far, at this moment, there are no premises for talks because everybody knows full well Ukraine’s stance on rejecting any kind of negotiations. So the special military operation continues,” the Kremlin official said. That said, Peskov stated that the position of Russian President Vladimir Putin “is well-known.” “The last time he mentioned it during a conversation with [Belarusian] President [Alexander] Lukashenko,” he noted. He also reiterated that the “Russian stance is consistent,” thus replying to…

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