Iraq, Jordan Added to Signatories List of Communique on Ukraine by Mistake: Swiss Foreign Ministry
13:41 17.06.2024 (Updated: 16:11 17.06.2024)
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GENEVA (Sputnik) - Iraq and Jordan were initially added to the list of signatories of the final communiqué on Ukraine following the Swiss-hosted conference by mistake due to a "coordination problem," Swiss Foreign Ministry spokesperson Valentin Clivaz told Sputnik on Monday.
On Sunday, the two countries were excluded from the list of countries that signed the joint document hours after it was published.
"In such cases, each delegation participating in the event receives a communiqué in advance and then, if it objects to its signing, must inform the host country [Switzerland] about this. Iraq and Jordan did not specifically state their opposition to this text and were therefore added. They asked to remove their names from the list of signatories after the publication of the final communiqué, which was done. It was just a coordination problem," the spokesperson said.
Switzerland hosted a high-level conference on Ukraine at the Buergenstock resort outside of Lucerne from June 15-16. Russia did not receive an invitation to the summit and would not have attended it, Vladimir Khokhlov, the spokesman for the Russian Embassy in Bern, told Sputnik in April.
