A non-Arab president at the Arab summit!! Algerian Dialogue

Oleksey Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, confirmed the presence of President Volodymyr Zelensky today, Friday, at the 32nd Arab Summit held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

And Kiev kept quiet about Zelensky’s presence at the Arab summit, and did not announce the authenticity of the news that has been circulating since the seas of this week, and German Foreign Minister Analina Berbock from Qatar stated about it that “Zelinsky will confirm there once again that this war can end tomorrow ….”

“We were sure that our president would be where Ukraine needs it, in any part of the world, to solve the issue of stability of our country,” Danilov said on Friday. There will be important issues being decided there, so a physical presence is crucial to defending our interests.”

Reuters reported, quoting an undisclosed source, that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was on his way to attend the Arab Summit in Saudi Arabia. It is the presence that raised great questions about the interpretation of “the presence of a non-Arab president at the Arab Summit”, given that diplomatic custom requires inviting officials in regional and international organizations such as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the African Union, the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, the Arab Parliament, the United Nations, This is what Algeria committed to at the last Arab summit before the Jeddah summit, and not for a president from outside the Arab region to discuss files of interest to the region at the political, diplomatic, economic and social levels, and to propose solutions to crises in Arab countries in the direction of preserving the security of the region and the unity of the Arab nation.

Observers of the political and diplomatic affairs went on to classify the presence of the Ukrainian president at the Jeddah summit as a “strike against the position of neutrality” chosen by the Arab leaders regarding the Russian-Ukrainian war, given that Zelensky’s visit to Jeddah and his attendance at the Arab summit is not a Saudi affair, but it is given the “Arab character” in a first precedent. In the history of Arab summits and put Arab neutrality to the test.