MADRID, 18 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Secretary of the United States Department of State, Antony Blinken, thanked Saudi Arabia on Thursday for its efforts to make possible the meeting in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) on August 5 to discuss a peace plan for the war in Ukraine. .
“I spoke today with the Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister, Faisal bin Farhan, to thank Saudi Arabia for convening more than 40 countries last month to discuss peace in Ukraine,” Blinken posted on his X social network account. , formerly Twitter.
“We also discussed the need to end the devastating conflict in Sudan and the next steps to support lasting peace in Yemen,” added the secretary.
The representatives of these 40 countries agreed on the need to reach a peace agreement that fully respects the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, and the creation of specific working groups on the most outstanding aspects of the ten-point proposal presented at its day by the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelensky, to cease hostilities with Russia.
All the participants assured that “respect for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine must be at the center of any peace agreement” with a view to “restoring the supremacy of the United Nations Charter and respect for international law” , according to European sources at the meeting.
The meeting, however, was marked by the absence of Russia, which was excluded from these talks and has assured on countless occasions that it will not even sit down at the table to discuss Zelensky’s peace plan.
The Ukrainian Peace Formula, it should be remembered, calls for the departure of all Russian troops from the country, including the Crimean peninsula, under Russian control since 2014 and which, according to Moscow, has been legally incorporated into its territory. In previous responses, Russia has insisted that any peace negotiations on Ukraine must take into account “the new territorial realities” that appeared nine years ago and demands security guarantees on the deployment of NATO in eastern Europe.
