Five EU priorities: what demands did Europeans make for a peace agreement for Ukraine?
Фото: REUTERS
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has named five EU priorities that should be taken into account in a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia.
This is reported by European Truth.
According to the official, the first priority is to ensure a just and lasting peace. The concluded agreement should guarantee security for Ukraine and European states.
She emphasized that Ukraine is a sovereign country, so Europe believes that there should be no restrictions on the size of the army.
“Ukraine needs reliable, long-term and credible security guarantees as part of a broader package… And it is equally clear that any peace agreement must provide guarantees for European security in the long term,” von der Leyen noted.
The second European priority is the integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine. The official is convinced that the EU cannot allow changes to state borders.
“If we legitimize and formalize the undermining of borders today, we open the door to new wars tomorrow,” she explained.
The third requirement of the European Union is to ensure Ukraine’s financial needs. In particular, the EU has undertaken to cover Ukraine’s needs for the next two years.
“On this topic, we, the Commission, have presented a document with options. This includes an option regarding frozen Russian assets,” added Ursula von der Leyen.
In the future, the European Commission plans to present draft legal documents to cover Ukraine’s financial needs.
In addition, the official drew attention to the principle of “nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine, nothing about Europe without Europe, nothing about NATO without NATO.”
Among other things, the EU demands that Russia return all Ukrainian children it abducted during the full-scale invasion.
As a reminder, the Trump administration’s ceasefire plan provides for the complete withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions , as well as the freezing of the contact line in the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump said that the plan proposed by the United States regarding Ukraine and Russia is not final. He emphasized that the document is aimed at achieving peace and can be further developed.
It should be noted that after the negotiations between the Ukrainian and American delegations in Geneva, the US peace plan for Ukraine underwent significant changes.
As is known, Ukraine has given preliminary consent to the American peace proposal to end the war, but the process is being slowed down by the complete lack of reaction from Russia.
Donald Trump previously stated that the only real concession from the Russian Federation in a potential peace agreement with Ukraine could be a complete cessation of hostilities .
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