(Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of employees referred to as on Monday for a brand new worldwide safety system to preclude future cases of armed aggression, as he addressed an internet convention on securing peace following Russia’s invasion.
Andriy Yermak stated 66 international locations and worldwide organisations had taken half within the convention, devoted to at least one level of the president’s peace plan on ending the greater than 2 1/2-year-old battle with Russia. The discussions targeted on future cases of escalation and aggression.
Zelenskiy deliberate to current to parliament this week a “victory plan” – a follow-up to the peace plan he drew up in late 2022 calling for the withdrawal of Russian troops and the restoration of Ukraine’s 1991 borders.
That plan fashioned the premise of a “peace summit” held in Switzerland in June.
Yermak, writing on Zelenskiy’s web site, stated present safety techniques “had been unable to suggest lively means to rule out Russian aggression” and its world-wide penalties.
“We want a renewed safety structure based mostly on worldwide legislation and the strengthening of Ukraine’s personal defence capabilities,” he wrote. “This method ought to cowl not solely a navy part, but additionally sanctions, monetary assist, investments and broad cooperation in numerous fields.”
Yermak didn’t say which international locations took half within the convention, one in all a collection in preparation for world-wide summits and supposed to attract assist from international locations within the International South, notably Africa and Asia.
Zelenskiy has stated he needs to carry a brand new “world summit” earlier than the top of 2024. Russia was uninvited to the Swiss gathering, dismissed its discussions as irrelevant and stated it could attend no such assembly sooner or later.
Zelenskiy mentioned his victory plan final week with leaders of Ukraine’s European allies and pressed for permission to make use of Western long-range weapons towards Russian targets.
Few particulars of the plan have been disclosed. Zelenskiy says it seeks to strengthen Ukraine “each geopolitically and on the battlefield” earlier than any form of dialogue with Russia.
