An official in India says New Delhi will join in a weekend meeting that Saudi Arabia is hosting, seeking to find a way to begin negotiations to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.

On Thursday, a spokesman for India’s External Affairs Ministry that Saudi Arabia invited India to the two-day meeting in Jeddah and its “participation is in consonance with our long-standing position that dialogue and diplomacy is the way forward.”

The spokesman did not mention who would represent India at the summit.

On Sunday, the head of Ukraine’s presidential office confirmed that a Ukrainian-organized peace summit would take place in Saudi Arabia.