Russia officially rejected participation in next month’s US-sponsored Middle East peace summit in Bahrain on Tuesday, a day after Chinese ambassador to Palestine Guo Wei announced that Beijing and Moscow had struck an agreement to boycott it.
“It is obvious that this is yet another attempt by the United States to shift the priorities on the regional agenda and impose the American vision of the Israeli-Palestinian settlement,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “Persistent attempts to substitute the goal of achieving a comprehensive political settlement with a package of economic bonuses while undermining the principle of two states for two people are a matter of grave concern.”
