Some of the United States allies are very concerned about the peace framework that promotes President Donald Trump’s administration to end the war in Ukraine. This was stated on Thursday by CNN, referring to unnamed sources, TASR reports.
The frame that the US has submitted at last week’s meeting with Ukrainian officials in Paris, He counts on significant concessions by Kiev – including the recognition of the Crimean Peninsula for the Russian territory of the United States and the resignation of large parts of the territory in favor of Russiaone of the cited sources. On Thursday, Trump said on the question of what concessions Russia offered, “stopping the war, and at the same time indicated that” not harming the whole country “was a” quite big concession “.
Several unnamed diplomats according to CNN expressed concern about what Trump’s administration proposed because They believe that such a peace frameworks sends a dangerous signal to the head of Kremlin Vladimir Putin and other world leaders, including the Chinese President Si Jin-Pching, that they can pay off unlawful conquest.
“This is a question of the fundamental principles of international law. It is largely that of our own existence and weakening of any guarantees that our own independence has our own or other countries, ”he said Eastern European diplomat.
“If one country in Europe is currently under pressure or is forced to give up part of its legal territory, a territory that has been recognized as part of Ukraine … If one country in Europe is forced to do so, No country in Europe or elsewhere can feel safe, whether it is NATO or not, ” added an unnamed representative.
According to CNN, the proposal for de facto recognition of Crimea as part of Russia would reverse the long -term US policy that, despite the Russian occupation, the Crimean Peninsula is the territory of Ukraine. If the United States proceeds to such a step, European officials have already shown that they would not follow it.
The Asian allies of the US, according to the US station, are increasingly concerned about the end of the war, which could be advantageous for Russia even though there was a conflict against the neighboring country. In private interviews with American partners, Asian diplomats have clearly expressed their concerns about the global consequences of the settlement that would violate Ukraine’s borders.
“China is watching it. We said it to Trump’s administration. We are afraid of the message, which they could take from any end of the war, which seems to be a valuation of Russia for bloodshed, ”said one of the Asian diplomats.
After the meeting in Paris, negotiations in London were held this week, where the Ukrainian delegation met with Trump’s special ambassador for Ukraine Keith Kellogg. A certain diplomat commented on this meeting by saying that it was “progress” in order to “convince the Ukrainians to convince themselves that they were to take a more friendly position towards the US administration”.
All attention is now focused on the expected Friday meeting of Trump’s special ambassador Steve Witkoff with Putin, wrote the server CNN. Witkoff met the Russian President for the last time in St. Petersburg, April 11. Their talks lasted more than four hours and mainly concerned war in Ukraine.
