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Ukraine and its allies could invite Russia to a peace summit in Switzerland to discuss ending Moscow’s two-year war of invasion. This was said by the chief of staff of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (46) on Sunday.
Andrij Yermak (52), who as Zelensky’s chief of staff is the second most powerful man in Ukraine, was referring to a summit that Switzerland wants to organize in the coming months to discuss peace initiatives for Ukraine.
According to Yermak, the peace plan could also be presented to Russia at a later date during a second meeting. President Zelensky plans to present his plan to resolve the conflict to Russia at the second conference in Switzerland, Yermak said. The document will be presented to Moscow.
Is Kiev imposing an illusory condition?
“A situation may arise,” Yermak explained at the “Ukraine Year 2024” forum in Kiev, “where we will jointly invite representatives of the Russian Federation and present the plan to them.” This is “in the event,” Jermak is quoted by Reuters, “that whoever represents the attacking country at this point really wants to end this war and return to a just peace.”
President Zelensky’s right-hand man did not make it clear whether Kiev was imposing the condition that there must first be a change of power in the Kremlin and that Russian President Vladimir Putin (71) must be deposed.
Kiev has so far stated that it will not talk to Moscow until all Russian troops have left Ukrainian territory. The Kremlin, for its part, insists that there is currently no basis for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine. Kiev’s peace plan is absurd because it excludes Russia.
Cassis speaks of secret peace plans
According to Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis (62), it will be necessary to examine as many peace proposals as possible during the peace conference in Switzerland. There are currently about 10 peace plans for Ukraine in the international community, most of which are known to the public, Cassis told reporters on Saturday during a briefing at UN headquarters in New York.
“A total of about ten peace plans currently exist,” Cassis told Russian state news agency Tass. “Of course we are talking about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s 10-point peace plan. Then there are six or seven publicly known plans. There are also secret ones,” Cassis said, without elaborating.
Source: Blick
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