ERIC ZUESSE -- What Is Blocking a Peace-Agreement Between Putin & Zelensky

 

What Is Blocking a Peace-Agreement Between Putin & Zelensky

 

Eric Zuesse, March 22, 2022

 

On Monday, 21 March, AP reported that “Zelenskyy said that Kyiv will be ready to discuss the status of Crimea and the eastern Donbas region held by Russian-backed separatists after a cease-fire and steps toward providing security guarantees.” This milestone is the very first time that Zelensky has said that there might be circumstances under which “the status of Crimea and the eastern Donbas region held by Russian-backed separatists” could even possibly be negotiated by Ukraine’s government. All Ukrainian-government leaders, after U.S. President Barack Obama perpetrated in Ukraine a violent coup which overthrew Ukraine’s democratically elected President and installed a U.S.-controlled rabidly anti-Russian government in Ukraine in February 2014, have said that Ukraine will never consider the status of those two former regions of Ukraine to be negotiable.

 

So: Zelensky is now saying that “after a cease-fire and steps toward providing security guarantees,” Zelensky would negotiate “the status of Crimea and the eastern Donbas region held by Russian-backed separatists.” This is the first major change-in-position by EITHER side in the present conflict, and the fact that it is being made by Ukraine is indisputable proof that militarily Russia is winning the war.

 

 

Roundup: Chinese FM urges China, EU to jointly safeguard peace, development

Source: Xinhua| 2020-08-31 22:02:23|Editor: huaxia

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi (L) delivers a speech entitled "Solidarity, Cooperation, Openness and Inclusiveness, Jointly Safeguarding the Progressive Trend of Peace and Development of Mankind" at the French Institute of International Relations in Paris, France, Aug. 30, 2020. (Xinhua/Gao Jing)

China and the EU should:

-- resolutely safeguard peaceful development and oppose global division

-- strongly uphold multilateralism and jointly oppose unilateral bullying

-- continue to promote mutually beneficial cooperation and jointly oppose seclusion and decoupling

-- jointly respond to global challenges and oppose the "beggar-thy-neighbor" strategy.

PARIS, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi has urged China and the European Union (EU) to jointly uphold the trend of peace and development, while calling for solidarity, cooperation, openness and inclusiveness.