Zelenskyy's office on second Peace Summit: It does not mean start of negotiations with Russia
Photo: Andrii Yermak, Head of the Office of the President (Vitalii Nosach, RBC-Ukraine)
The second Peace Summit will not mark the start of negotiations between Ukraine and Russia. The aggressor country will only be presented with a peace plan, states Andrii Yermak, head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, in an interview with Evropeiska Pravda.
He emphasized that a representative from Russia might attend the second Peace Summit. Ukraine and other participants plan to present the agreed-upon plan for implementing all the points of the peace formula to this representative.
"But this does not mean the beginning of negotiations with Russia. No, that is not what this is about. We want even such a meeting, where this plan can be presented, to take place not in a Ukraine-Russia format, but in the presence of all the countries that support our plan," Yermak explained.
In response to a question about the possibility of Russian President Vladimir Putin participating in the Peace Summit, the head of the Office of the President emphasized that it is still too early to discuss this.
What preceded
Ukraine plans to organize the second Peace Summit by the end of this year. It is expected that a plan for implementing the peace formula will be prepared for this event. A series of meetings at the level of state advisers will take place leading up to it.
Representatives from Russia are also planned to be invited to the second Peace Summit. As President Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted, most countries want Russia's participation.
However, Russian officials have so far only denied the possibility of participating in the Peace Summit.
