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AUTHOR:M.J. GDNUS
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov today outlined Russia's key conditions for peace in Ukraine, proposing that the country's security be guaranteed by a group of nations that would include the permanent members of the UN Security Council, Reuters reports.
Return to failed negotiations
In an interview with the American NBC News, Lavrov revealed that Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump discussed the issue of security guarantees, with Putin recalling the failed negotiations held in Istanbul in 2022.
At those negotiations, according to a draft agreement seen by Reuters, the permanent neutrality of Ukraine was discussed in exchange for security guarantees from the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - Great Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States, with the participation of other countries. Lavrov has now specified that, in addition to the members of the Security Council, this group of guarantors could also include Germany and Turkey.
Key Russian conditions
According to Lavrov, the model is clear. “And the guarantors would guarantee the security of Ukraine, which must be neutral, non-aligned with any military bloc and non-nuclear,” he said, according to a transcript released by the Russian Foreign Ministry.
He reiterated that Ukraine’s membership in NATO is unacceptable to Russia. He also noted that Moscow still demands protection of the Russian-speaking region in Ukraine and that territorial talks are also needed.
The terms are in line with previous reports, according to which Putin is demanding that Ukraine hand over the entire eastern region of Donbas, abandon its NATO ambitions, remain neutral and not allow the presence of Western troops on its soil.
