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Emrys

(7,286 posts)
8. You made a similar claim the other day about no peace talks
Fri Apr 26, 2024, 08:16 PM
Apr 26

Just because you seemingly haven't been paying attention doesn't equate to our not being "privy to" them.

Here's what I replied to you last time I saw you claim this, since it seems to have passed you by and not been "obvious" enough for you:

Zelensky, on top of his other efforts, has been busy drawing together a peace conference to take place in Switzerland:

Switzerland to host Ukraine peace conference in June, without Russia

Switzerland said Wednesday (10 April) it would organise a high-level peace conference for Ukraine in mid-June, but without Russia, which promptly slammed the event as a US-orchestrated plot.

Ukraine and up to 100 countries would attend the conference at the luxury Burgenstock resort near the central city of Luzern on June 15-16, which Swiss President Viola Amherd said she would host.

“This is a first step in a process towards a lasting peace,” she told reporters in Bern.

Amherd acknowledged that “we will not sign a peace plan at this conference” but “we hope to start the process.”

https://www.euractiv.com/section/europe-s-east/news/switzerland-to-host-ukraine-peace-conference-in-june-without-russia/


Now, you may object that this isn't "real" because it excludes Russia. It has long lost any credibility as an actor or negotiator in good faith, so its inclusion at that stage would be pointless and simply hand its representatives another opportunity for disgraceful grandstanding. The conference will explore, in Zelensky's words, a "fair" settlement as a basis for an end to hostilities.

The results of that probably won't please you either. Tough. It will almost certainly exclude handing Russia the chunks of Ukraine it's devastated and pillaged that were granted to Ukraine by international treaty. Putin himself signed over Crimea to Ukraine at the turn of the century, confirming earlier agreements - something he seems to have conveniently forgotten or sought to shamelessly renege on just as he's sought to renege on a host of other treaties, in some cases going back centuries.

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