NDJAMENA. June 5 (Interfax) - Organizers of the upcoming international conference on Ukraine due in Switzerland are not looking for a way to put an end to the conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
"It's not peace that organizers of this conference want," Lavrov said at a press conference in Ndjamena on Wednesday in the wake of his visit to Chad.
"The principle according to which they call in various countries of the global majority, including African ones, is as follows: they literally put it this way - who you are with, either you are with us or you are with Russia," he said.
"And those who are with Russia, we will punish you. This is the essence of this conference," he said.
Western countries "are supplying long-range systems and saying in public, attack any target in Russia's territory and at the same time convene a peace conference in Switzerland, which is due to take place in ten days," he said.
"It is hard to understand who these things are put together, either you are for Russia's strategic defeat or you are for peace conference," Lavrov said.
"But if you are for peace, then probably, as Mr. Minister [of Foreign Affairs of Chad Abderaman Koulamallah] said, the problem should be solved with the participation of all parties involved, rather than demand to gather in Switzerland to confirm or support without any reservation the infamous 'Zelensky's formula,' which is the ultimatum demanding the strategic defeat from Russia, so that we accept it kind of voluntary," Lavrov said.