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The US special presidential envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kelloge said on Saturday that the peaceful plan for the two warring nations could come within days or weeks.
“I am at times of Trump,” Kelloge told the delegates of the fringe event at the Munich Security Conference, citing a famous fast -paced decision by US President Donald Trump.
“He will ask you to do this job today and he will want to know tomorrow why he is not resolved,” Kelloge, a key negotiator for Ukraine and the Allied nations in the recently introduced peace talks.
“You have to give us some room for breathing and time, but when I say it, I’m not talking for six months, I talk days and weeks,” he said.
Kellog has said that there is currently an approach to a “double song” to peace talks, with US representatives contacting Russia and separately with Ukraine and allied countries. Kelloge, for his part, said that he was working on behalf of the last grouping and insisted – contrary to the worse proposals in the United States – both Ukraine and Europe must be part of these conversations.
“You have to bring the Allies with you. They (Ukraine and Europe) will play a role? Of course they are. You can’t do it when anyone is excluded,” he said.
“We want to make sure it is durable and a sustainable peace,” he added.
Europe may not be physically at the peace talk table
Kellog then explained that Europe may not physically be at the peace talk table, but that the interests of the region would be taken into account.
“What we don’t want to do is get into a big group discussion,” he said.
Asked if she could outline the requirements for a reliable security guarantee for Ukraine, Kelloge said he could still not do it.
“The answer is not at the moment,” he said, saying he was at the conference to gather insights from Ukraine and Europe. Sometimes the US has a “problem only by looking at their own lens,” he added.
He noted later on Saturday that the agreement may include territorial discounts from Russia, without confirming Moscow’s position on such a proposal.
Global Defense and Security Employees are gathering in Munich, Germany for the annual three -day conference, where the future of Ukraine, peace talks with Russia and the transformation of the security of security and defense are Europe are In the foreground of discussions.
The prospects for a peaceful deal came back to the fore this week after President Trump held separate telephone calls with both Putin and later Zelenski. After initially stating that a bilateral deal could be achieved between Washington and Moscow, Trump later said that Zelenski of Ukraine would be involved with “many other people”.
Yet, the concern for Europe’s participation in the negotiations blurred the event, with senior EU officials insisting that there may be that there may be Without lasting peace without them.
Speaking to a panel with the Saturday of Kellog, the Prime Minister of Croatia Andrei Plenkovic said it was crucial to achieve not a “peace deal”, but the one that guarantees the territorial integrity of Ukraine. He added that the exclusion of Europe from conversations would be “politically unacceptable” given the long transatlantic links between Europe and the United States
When you are just followers, it is up to you – and whom it depends on, writes the rules.
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Former Foreign Minister, Lithuania
Turning to the audience delegates, Iceland Prime Minister Christorn Frostadotir also cites a common sense of trembling from Europe to the new US administration.
“People are still not sure what the US wants to do,” she said. “It is difficult for leaders to react constantly to unclear comments.”
Meanwhile, Gabrielius Landsbergis, the former Foreign Minister of Lithuania, who retired last year, uses a more critical approach to the potential exclusion of Europe from negotiations.
“I understand the dissatisfaction that Europe is not on the table, but the reason why it is not because Europe has very little to offer on the table,” he told CNBC on Saturday.
“If we are now ready to offer troops, money, integration of the EU, we could have our own table. We can invite Ukrainians and Putin and Trump and whoever talks about peace the way Europe and Ukraine understand this,” he continued.
“Now, unfortunately, we are the followers. And when you are just followers, you depend – and whom it depends, writes the rules.”
