In the coming week, a Ukraine peace summit takes place in Switzerland.

The UN Security Council discusses civil war-ravaged Sudan

and diplomatic pressure amounts for Israel and Hamas to reach a ceasefire deal.

It's June 13, 2024 in time for the world next week. I'm Bob McMahon.

And I'm Carla Ann Robbins.

Carla, let's go to Switzerland.

Oh, yes.

You know, Switzerland is a venue for all sorts of internationally minded organizations.

But this week, at the behest of

President Zelensky of Ukraine, it is going to be host to a peace summit. And there will be issues

like nuclear safety, food security, possible prisoner exchanges discussed. But Russia, which is the

other main party in Ukraine-Russia war is not going to be in attendance.

So can there be a peace conference without Moscow at the table?

And what should we expect from the summit?

Bob, this peace summit in Switzerland is just one of several meetings that are happening this week and in coming days that shift the focus back to Ukraine and its future.

And it started off actually

earlier this week in Berlin with the Ukraine Recovery Conference, which sought to rally investment

for 95 long-range projects, and also to talk about reform targets, which seem pretty important

for Ukraine. And then the G7, which begins today Thursday and runs through

Saturday in Italy, is expected to finally come up with an agreement on how to leverage $300

million in frozen Russian funds, which are in European, mainly Belgian banks. The Biden administration,

we've talked about this before, has been pushing to turn all of that money over to Ukraine for defense and financial needs and some reconstruction. And the European

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