The words "demilitarisation" and "denazification" do not appear in draft agreements – Chaly
KATERYNA TYSCHENKO - TUESDAY, MARCH 29 2022, 20:44
The draft documents discussed by the representatives of the Ukrainian and Russian delegations at the negotiations do not include the terms "denazification" and "demilitarisation" of Ukraine.
Source: Oleksandr Chaly, representative of the Ukrainian delegation at the talks with Russia in an interview with Ukrainian TV channels
Quote: "These items were indeed in the list of requirements of the Russian Federation. I will cautiously say as a diplomat: they are not used as terms in the texts we are working on. In this regard, none of our texts and work on these texts involve these terms. .
But in the agreement we are trying to resolve some issues regarding arms control, and not only in the context of Ukraine, but Ukraine as a country in the European security system."
Details: Chaly also noted that the concessions that Russia is now ready to make could not have been imagined a fortnight ago.
"In Istanbul today, Russia agreed with our position on some issues, which I do not want to disclose. Such an agreement with Russia was simply impossible to imagine just a fortnight ago," he said.
Background: On 29 March the Ukrainian side in Istanbul came forward with a proposal for an agreement on security guarantees for Ukraine. Kyiv sees the UN Security Council countries (Britain, China, Russia, the United States, France, Turkey, Germany, Canada, Italy, Poland and Israel) as being among the guarantors of the agreement.
The Ukrainian delegation is proposing that Russia state in a separate clause of the agreement that the status of Crimea and Sevastopol will be resolved within 15 years in bilateral talks.
The Ukrainian delegation is proposing that the fate of the occupied territories of eastern Ukraine be decided during direct negotiations between President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and President of Russia Vladimir Putin.
According to Podoliak, the signing of an international agreement on security guarantees is possible only after a nationwide referendum on the issue.
