European leaders meet in Dublin as US pushes Ukraine talks
More than 40 governments sent heads of state to the European Political Community summit, with Zelensky, Carney and Rutte attending and US envoys bound for Moscow.
Leaders from more than 40 European countries met in Dublin on Thursday for a summit on the continent's security, as a new US-backed effort to revive talks on ending Russia's war in Ukraine got under way.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte joined heads of state and government from European countries and the UK at the European Political Community meeting, France 24 reported. The forum brings together EU members and countries outside the bloc, Britain among them.
Zelensky said he had arrived in Dublin to meet European leaders and US negotiators, and shared a video on social media about the visit, which he said included talks on the war, Arab News reported.
Euronews reported that the summit followed two days of US-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi that produced a prisoner exchange but no ceasefire. US envoys were then due to travel to Moscow and afterwards to meet Zelensky, according to the same report, which gave no further detail of the exchange or the envoys' names.
Ireland mounted the largest security operation in its history for the meeting, France 24 reported. The broadcaster said around 50 leaders were in the city and that the operation followed a wave of hoax bomb threats against airlines and media organisations across Europe. France 24's Olivia Bizot reported that Irish police logged new incidents on Monday and Tuesday.
France 24 described the meeting as focused on what it called the continent's fragile security, and reported that it was being held under the shadow of hybrid threats.
The Council of Europe said Alain Berset would make the case for democratic security at the summit in Dublin.
How the reports differ
France 24's two reports differed on the size of the gathering: its lead report on the summit said leaders from more than 40 European countries attended, while a second France 24 report put the figure at around 50 European leaders. Euronews alone reported that two days of US-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi had produced a prisoner exchange without a ceasefire, and that US envoys would go on to Moscow and then to Zelensky. Arab News led on Zelensky's own announcement of his arrival, including a video he posted, and named US negotiators among those he would meet. The Council of Europe reported the summit through the lens of its own official, Alain Berset, and his argument for democratic security, a theme the other reports did not carry.
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