Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is approaching ending the armed conflict on Thursday, with Kyiv and Moscow “almost agreeing” on topics such as Ukraine’s accession to NATO and security arrangements, but on the territory. He said there was still a big difference in terms of compromise. ..
Prime Minister Erdogan told reporters in Brussels following the extraordinary NATO summit, stating that the main goal of Turkey’s mediation efforts is to bring together the presidents of Ukraine and Russia for peace talks.
“All our efforts aim to create an atmosphere of peace by bringing together two leaders,” Erdogan said. “We are in close contact with both countries to end the war immediately.”
Turkey, a NATO member, shares a maritime boundary with Ukraine and Russia in the Black Sea, has good relations with them, and has offered to mediate disputes.
“We are cautiously optimistic about the progress of the negotiations at a particular point in time,” said Erdogan, “almost consensus” on issues such as Ukraine’s neutral nation and the country’s potential NATO accession, which Moscow is strongly opposed to. He added that there is.
However, Erdogan added that the two were at odds with the secaratist-dominated secaratist-dominated nations of Donetsk and Lugansk in eastern Ukraine and the situation in Crimea, where Russia was annexed.
Moscow demanded that Kyiv recognize the independence of the two so-called republics and that Russia owns the Crimean. Prime Minister Erdogan said both proposals were “impossible for Ukraine to agree” without first voting on the matter.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was looking forward to meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin recently. Zelenskyy said he had given up on the idea of joining NATO, but he insisted on referendum on other compromises, including potential territorial concessions.
Prime Minister Erdogan praised Zelensky’s call for a referendum and said it reflected “wise leadership.”
President Joe Biden, who also attended the NATO summit in Brussels, was asked if he believed that Ukraine should make a territorial concession to Russia to ensure peace.
Biden did not rule it out, but he said it should be a Ukrainian call.
“It’s a holistic decision based on Ukraine. There is nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine,” Biden said, “I don’t believe they have to.”
On his way back to Turkey on Thursday, Prime Minister Erdogan immediately calls Putin to reporters on the plane to “become an architect of the movement for peace” and find an “honored exit” from the war. He said he would urge him. Turkish media..
Zelenskyy said in Video address On Friday, Ukraine “must move towards peace,” he added, “in every day of our defense, we are very close to the peace we need.”
Prime Minister Erdogan’s remarks on potential compromises between the two countries were Turkish Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Karin, who spoke in an interview with Al Jazeera television last week.
Karin told Outlet that Russia and Ukraine are approaching four important issues: Russia’s request for Ukraine to abandon its ambitions to join NATO, disarmament of its troops, protection of Ukraine’s Russian language, And Russia “de-najification.” This last mention is common as a request for Ukrainian leaders to give up power, along with Putin’s labeling of Kyiv’s political leaders as “neonazi.” Is understood by.
Ukraine and the Western nations denounce the invasion of Moscow as an illegal and unjustified war of aggression, on the basis of Russia’s reference to the “denazification” and “neonazi” of Ukraine’s democratically elected leaders. Rejected as no advertisement.
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