In Hungary in Russia. The Ukrainian President, Volodímir Zelenskiwants a neutral country to meet with Vladimir Putin or, at least, one that maintains cordial relations with both parties. In a meeting with Ukrainian journalists, Zelenski has proposed this Thursday Swiss, Austria o Türkiye as possible venues for the meeting that the US leader, Donald TrumpHe wants to organize among the two leaders to try to negotiate peace. “We believe it would be fair and the Europeans emphasized this, that the meeting should be in the Europa neutral. Because there is one War in Ukraine And in the European continent, “he said in some statements cited by the UKRinform agency.
“I have said that we agree. Switzerland, Austria, we agree. Turkey? Turkey is for us an NATO country and part of Europe. We are not against,” said the president. On the contrary, Zelenski ruled out that the meeting can occur in Moscowthe capital of the invading country, as Kremlin had proposed, and also stressed that organizing the meeting in Hungary, as stated, would be “difficult.” No one escapes the proximity of the prime minister Víktor Orban To Putin. “It is not easy, because there is unity of all European countries when supporting Ukraine during the war. And, let’s be sincere, Budapest did not support us,” said the Ukrainian president.
Austrian predisposition
This Tuesday, the Austrian government was willing to allow Putin to participate in Vienna in a summit with his Ukrainian counterpart, despite the arrest warrant issued against the Russian leader by the International Criminal Court (CPI). “If the negotiations will be held in Vienna, we will contact the CPI, by virtue of our agreements of Headquarters of International Organizations In Vienna (…), to allow the participation of President Putin, “said Austrian Foreign Minister (Prime Minister), the conservative Christian Stocker.
Also on Tuesday, the president of the United States, Donald TrumpHe said he wants to see “what happens” at a bilateral meeting between Putin and Zelenski, before opting for the possibility of participating in a Tres Bandas Meeting to try to reach a peace agreement. Although Trump initially intended to celebrate a trilateral meeting, after meeting on Monday with Zelenski and several European leaders and telephone Putin, said that a bilateral encounter will be held first to try to end the war in Ukraine.
