Ukraine and its foreign partners could invite Russia to a future peace summit to discuss an end to Moscow’s two-year-old invasion on Kyiv’s terms, said Andriy Yermak, the head of the Ukrainian office of the President, on Sunday.
Switzerland will host a summit to discuss a vision for peace by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, which could be handed to Russia during a second meeting at a later date, said Zelenskyy's chief of staff.
“The plan is as follows: the first inaugural summit will take place in the near future in Switzerland. To date, invitations have been prepared and will be sent to more than one hundred and sixty countries,” Yermak added.
“There can be a situation in which we together invite representatives of the Russian Federation, where they will be presented with the plan in case whoever is representing the aggressor country at that time will want to genuinely end this war and return to a just peace,” he said during a televised conference in Kyiv.
Zelenskyy first announced his peace formula at a November 2022 summit of the Group of 20 major economies. It calls for restoring Ukraine’s territorial integrity and a total withdrawal of Russian troops.
Kyiv has maintained that it would not speak with Moscow until all Russian troops have left Ukrainian territory.
“The plan is as follows: the first inaugural summit will take place in the near future in Switzerland. To date, invitations have been prepared and will be sent to more than one hundred and sixty countries,” Yermak added.
“There can be a situation in which we together invite representatives of the Russian Federation, where they will be presented with the plan in case whoever is representing the aggressor country at that time will want to genuinely end this war and return to a just peace,” he said during a televised conference in Kyiv.
Zelenskyy first announced his peace formula at a November 2022 summit of the Group of 20 major economies. It calls for restoring Ukraine’s territorial integrity and a total withdrawal of Russian troops.
Kyiv has maintained that it would not speak with Moscow until all Russian troops have left Ukrainian territory.
Source: Reuters
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