Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev urged Russian leader Vladimir Putin to consider freezing the war in Ukraine and returning to a revamped version of the 2022 Istanbul talks, in a rare public nudge toward peace from one of Moscow¡¯s closest partners.
Tokayev, speaking at a meeting with Putin in the Siberian city of Omsk on Saturday, said he was receiving numerous signals from Europe and the U.S. regarding the state of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. He said he decided to voice his opinion, ¡°because people know about our meeting and they asked me to pass this along.¡±
¡°Perhaps it¡¯s time to freeze this conflict and return to the Istanbul formula 2.0, since significant results were achieved there,¡± Tokayev said, referring to the failed negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv in the first weeks of the war.?
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