The White House representative for the Ukraine War, General Keith Kellogg, said this Saturday that Europe should not participate directly in the negotiations that are promoting USA to put End to armed conflict which Russia started almost three years ago in that country.
Asked at an event on the margins of the Munich Security Conference on the presence of representatives of the European Union (EU) or of the Member Countries in the Negotiations, Kellogg has declared a supporter of “The School of Realism”, to add : “This will not happen.”
According to a video of the act, Kellogg has addressed his “European friends” To tell them that they participate in the debate, but do not complain that they may or may not be at the table and recommended to provide “concrete proposals, ideas, and increase spending” in defense.
The special envoy of the US president, Donald Trump, has given as a reason the bad experience of the Minsk II process between Russia and Ukraine Under the mediation of Germany and France for a high fire in the Ukrainian region of Donbás, in the east of the country, which was signed in 2015.
“Part of the problem we saw in Minsk II is that there were many people at the table,” he said about that process in the Belarus capital, in which, in addition to Ukraine and Russia, representatives of the prorrues rebels of Donetsk and Lugansk supported by the Kremlin, Germany, France, Belarus and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
USA and Russia will meet next week in Saudi Arabia
High positions from the US and Russia will meet next week in Saudi Arabia to prepare a possible leadership summit at the end of the month to discuss the End of war in Ukraine.
The details of the meeting and the list of attendees are still being prepared, but people informed of the plans said that the group is likely to be made up of national security advisors. The objective is to set a date before the Sacred Month of Ramadan begins, in March.
Most Europeans have not been informed so far, according to another official. And although Ukrainian officials are expected, it does not seem to be aware of the preparations. “Ukraine will never accept agreements made behind us Without our participation, “said Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski at the Munich Security Conference.
“And the same rule should be applied to all of Europe.” Zelenski’s office did not immediately respond to a consultation on the meeting. The US president himself, Donald Trump, said Thursday that a Summit with Vladimir Putin In the Gulf kingdom, and said that Ukrainians would participate.
Both exchanged invitations in the course of a 90 -minute phone call in what was the first contact between leaders since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. The National Security Council of the White House did not respond to a request for comments, Nor did a Kremlin spokesman.
Routte urges Europeans to join the peace debate in Ukraine with “concrete” proposals
The NATO general secretary, Mark Rutte, said this Saturday at the Munich Security Council that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not dare to attack an NATO country And he added that Moscow would face the “Total attack” of the alliance if that happened.
In addition, Rutte has told the European states of the Alliance to join the debate on the Peace in Ukraine But not “complaining” about whether or not they will be present in the conversations, but with “concrete” proposals in fields such as safety guarantees for kyiv after the conflict.
“I would tell my European friends to enter the debate not complaining that perhaps or are not at the table, but with concrete proposals, ideas. Increase spending, ensure that training and supply of arms (to Ukraine) He continues, but also coming with concrete ideas, for example, what aspect could the security guarantees have, “he said.
Rutte has expressed himself in that regard in a panel organized during the Munich Security Conference, in which, however, he has recognized that what he now sees among the European allies is that they are “entering the specific planning phase” of how they could contribute.
The US president, Donald Trump, spoke on Wednesday by phone with his counterparts from Russia, Vladimir Putin, and Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, in a first step to end the Ukraine War. However, European allies have warned that they want to be present in future peace negotiations.
Source: Lasexta
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