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Security assistance for Ukraine is expected to be one of the key
issues discussed at this year's dialogue, Asia's premier
security conference. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and the
Chinese defense minister, Dong Jun, are among those attending.
Two of the sources said Zelenskiy would address delegates at the
Shangri-La Dialogue on Saturday. All of the sources declined to
be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter.
The Ukrainian embassy in Singapore did not respond to a Reuters
request for comment. Zelenskiy's office in Kyiv did not
immediately respond to a request for comment.
There has been no Russian delegation at the Singapore security
meetings since 2022.
Zelenskiy, who is currently in Sweden, said on Wednesday that
Russia was still trying to disrupt a separate world "peace
summit" next month devoted to the invasion and that it was
putting pressure on countries to stay away from the gathering.
Zelenskiy wants the peace summit, scheduled for June 15-16 in
Switzerland, to produce a front to support the withdrawal of
Russian troops and the restoration of Ukraine's 1991 borders.
The Shangri-La Dialogue, held annually in Singapore by the
International Institute of Strategic Studies for the last 21
years, ends on June 2.
(Editing by Gerry Doyle and Raju Gopalakrishnan)
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