Ukraine’s foreign minister said on Monday his government hoped to hold a peace summit in late February, about a year after Russia invaded Ukraine.
In an interview with Associated pressthe minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said the United Nations could host the summit, with the Secretary-General Antonio Guterres acting as a possible mediator.
“All wars end diplomatically,” Kuleba said in the interview.
“Every war ends as a result of actions taken on the battlefield and at the negotiating table.”
Kuleba said Russia should be prosecuted for war crimes before an international tribunal to participate in the summit.
Kuleba added that he was “absolutely satisfied” with the president’s visit. Volodymyr Zelensky to the United States last week and that the Patriot missile battery would be operational in Ukraine within six months.
Even if the Ukrainian authorities have been proposing a peace agreement for months, and the Russian president Vladimir Putin said Monday he was willing to negotiate, US and European officials said it was hard to imagine the terms of a deal both Ukraine and Russia would accept.
This month, Zelensky discussed his vision for a global peace summit in a phone call with the president Joe Biden.
And in November, at the annual summit of the group of 20 Held in Bali, Zelensky spoke about his “path to peace” for ending the war, noting that Ukraine would not surrender until its territory was restored.
Also on Monday, Ukraine’s foreign ministry called for Russia’s withdrawal as one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and called for the country’s expulsion from the United Nations, a move it considered unlikely.
The Foreign Ministry claimed that Russia was illegally filling the post of Soviet Union without going through the necessary procedures stipulated by the Charter of the United Nations when the Union dissolved in 1991.
He also argued that Russia abused its veto power in the Security Council.
Russia should only be readmitted once it “fulfills the conditions for joining the organization,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.
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