Reports say Zelensky may travel to World Economic Forum in Davos

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a press conference with European Council President Charles Michel and Moldovan President Maia Sandu after their meeting. Dario Pignatelli/European Council/dpa
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a press conference with European Council President Charles Michel and Moldovan President Maia Sandu after their meeting. Dario Pignatelli/European Council/dpa

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky may travel to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, the Swiss daily Tages-Anzeiger reported on Tuesday.

Preparations are in full swing, according to the report.

The Swiss Foreign Ministry in Bern was tight-lipped on the subject. "We do not comment on these reports," a spokesman said on Tuesday.

The WEF - the annual meeting in the Swiss Alps of leaders from the worlds of politics, business and finance - begins on Monday.

On Sunday, one day before the WEF opens, the fourth meeting relating to Zelensky's "Peace Formula" for Ukraine is scheduled to take place in Davos.

At previous meetings, security advisors from a few dozen countries met to discuss the future of Ukraine.

The Ukrainian government aims to use the discussions to promote its peace plan, which foresees the withdrawal of all Russian forces from the occupied territories of Ukraine, including the Crimean Peninsula, along with guarantees for Ukraine's future security.

In addition Russian leaders would be made to account for their roles in the invasion.

Russia rejects the plan and was not invited to these meetings.

The conferences primarily serve to keep Ukraine's allies in line. The most recent of these meetings took place in Malta in October.