Head of the Office of the President Andriy Yermak stressed that all attempts by the Russians to tie today's day and negotiations to 2022 will not work, reports UNN.
The Russians want to build associations with 2022. But all that connects these negotiations is exclusively the city of Istanbul. And nothing more. All attempts by the Russians to tie today's day to 2022 will not work.
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A round of negotiations between the delegations of Ukraine and Russia started in Istanbul, conducted by Turkey.
Spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Georgy Tykhyi, emphasized that during negotiations with the Russian side, the Ukrainian delegation will primarily talk about a complete and unconditional ceasefire.
Ukraine and its partners called on Russia for a complete ceasefire for at least 30 days from May 12. However, on the night of May 11, Vladimir Putin stated that Russia was ready to resume peace talks with Ukraine on May 15 in Istanbul. The Russian Federation did not stop firing on Ukraine.
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Ukrainian-Russian negotiations in 2022
Negotiations between the Ukrainian delegation and the Russian delegation took place on February 28, March 3 and 7, 2022 on the border with Belarus in the Pripyat River area after the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. The meeting place in the Gomel region was not disclosed for security reasons. The negotiations continued on March 10, 2022 as a meeting between the foreign ministers of Ukraine and the Russian Federation in Turkey.
On March 10, on the territory of Turkey, at the initiative and mediation of the head of the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Mevlut Cavusoglu, negotiations took place between the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, and Russia, Sergey Lavrov. During the negotiations, each side insisted on its own and did not make concessions to its opponents. The Kremlin again promised to arrange humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of the population from the war zone, without specifying the direction of the routes acceptable to them, and a ceasefire from 10:00 on March 11, in particular in Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Mariupol.
The negotiations on March 21 did not lead to a breakthrough. Zelensky called for direct negotiations with Putin to end the war. Sergey Lavrov said that direct negotiations between the two presidents would take place only when both sides were closer to reaching a settlement.
Resumption of peace negotiations: March 29 - March 30
On March 28, Zelensky confirmed that the resumption of peace negotiations with Russia would begin on March 29 in Istanbul with the intention of discussing Ukraine's neutrality along with the rejection of any claims by Ukraine to NATO membership in the future.
On March 29, the first day of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations took place in Istanbul. Following its results, the head of the Russian delegation, Vladimir Medinsky, stated that the Russian Federation would take "two steps" to de-escalate the conflict. He noted that Kyiv had provided Moscow with confirmation of Ukraine's desire for a non-nuclear and neutral status. Also, according to Medinsky, Ukrainian proposals include the abandonment of the production and deployment of all types of weapons of mass destruction.
The head of the Ukrainian delegation, Mykhailo Podolyak, proposed to hold negotiations on the status of Crimea and Sevastopol for 15 years. At the same time, Moscow and Kyiv should refrain from resolving this issue by military means for the entire period. Vladimir Medinsky, in turn, stated that this does not correspond to the Russian position.
Statements of the parties after the round and immediate consequences
According to statements by Mykhailo Podolyak and Davyd Arakhamia, Ukraine proposed to freeze the issue of the status of Crimea for 15 years, proposed the conclusion of an international treaty on security guarantees, which would be signed and ratified by all countries that act as guarantors of Ukraine's security.
Medinsky said: "We have received written proposals from the Ukrainian delegation, as I understand it, agreed with the leadership of Ukraine, which boils down to the following: Ukraine is declared a permanently neutral state under international legal guarantees in order to implement a non-bloc non-nuclear status."
The last round of negotiations took place in Istanbul on April 15. By June 2022, negotiations had finally ceased.
In September 2022, after the Russian Federation announced the annexation of four Ukrainian regions, Zelensky enacted the decision of the National Security and Defense Council with a mention of the impossibility of negotiations with Putin.