“The updated 20-point peace plan does not formally contain a ban on Ukraine joining NATO and does not oblige Kyiv to renounce membership in the Alliance. At the same time, according to ZN.UA, in a separate document, Washington declares that NATO will no longer expand.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Illustrative photo: Getty Images Source: ZN.UA, which got acquainted with the updated version of the plan
Details: The publication ZN.UA got access to the “updated” peace plan, which Washington handed over to Kyiv. According to journalists, one of the key “non-Ukrainian” clauses – a general amnesty for actions during the war – was removed from it.
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The package of peace proposals, as ZN.UA writes, consists of four documents:
- agreements between Ukraine, the Russian Federation, the USA and Europe (20 points);
- framework security assurances for Ukraine (three points);
- US commitments to NATO (four points);
- agreement between Russia and the USA (12 points).
According to the publication, these texts are more like “conceptual notes” than full-fledged international treaties.
According to the publication, unlike the previous “28-point plan”, the new version does not require Ukraine and NATO to legally enshrine Ukraine’s non-adherence to the Alliance in the Constitution and basic documents of the bloc. Ukraine also nowhere undertakes not to join NATO.
At the same time, as ZN.UA writes, in a separate document of the “peace package”, the USA declares that NATO will no longer expand and will not invite Ukraine to join.
These assurances are duplicated in the first paragraph of the bilateral US-Russian agreement, which also refers to Washington’s intention to moderate the dialogue between the leaders of Russia and NATO to “eliminate security concerns”, “de-escalation” and “guarantee global security”.
Separately, the USA promises to object to the deployment of any “NATO troops” in Ukraine.
ZN.UA notes that the legal status of the document “about NATO” is unclear.
Literally: “It is not clear what the legal status of the document “about NATO” will be. If the multilateral “20 points” clearly state that this Agreement is legally binding, then there is no such thing in the “NATO” document.
Details: According to the publication, this could theoretically allow the next US president to cancel the relevant provisions as “Trump’s legacy”, just as Trump canceled part of his predecessor’s decisions.
“Does this mean that the next US president will be able to cancel this “Trump legacy”, as Trump himself canceled most of the decrees of his predecessor Joe Biden? If so, then all is not lost for Ukraine,” he says ZN.UA.
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What preceded:
Axios journalist reported that on December 10 Ukraine has given the American side its response to the “peace plan” that Donald Trump’s administration has been working on in recent weeks.
The Bloomberg agency reported that the Ukrainian side handed over the response to the “peace plan” to the US without further details.
On December 9, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi announced the completion of work at the level of national security advisers on the proposals of Ukraine and Europe for the “peace plan”.
According to the FT, Donald Trump wants a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia “before Christmas.”
We will remind:
- Information about the new “peace plan” of the USA, which is designed to settle the war between Russia and Ukraine, appeared in a number of American mass media on November 19.
- In these publications, it was mentioned that the plan provides for the transfer of all of Donbas to Russia. Also, according to him, Ukraine should limit its arsenal of weapons, cut the army in half and accept Russian as the second state language.
- On November 21, the mass media published the text of the 28-point peace plan, according to which Ukraine should forever give up its territories, and Russia should receive amnesty.
- On November 23, Great Britain, Germany and France prepared counter-proposals to the draft American “peace plan” with 28 points, designed to make them more beneficial for Ukraine.
- Also, on November 23, negotiations between the delegations of Ukraine and the USA took place in Geneva, after which it became known about the “updated” peace document.
- The British newspaper Financial Times reported that as a result of the negotiations in Geneva, Trump’s team made adjustments to the initial version of the “peace plan”, as a result of which the number of points in it was reduced to 19.
- On December 2, Zelenskyi said that the updated version of the peace plan, which Ukraine is discussing with the United States, now contains 20 points instead of 28 in the initial version.