Bloomberg: Zelensky asked India to host the Ukraine peace summit

According to Isna, the Bloomberg website quoted “informed sources” and wrote that Ukrainian Preside Volodymyr Zelensky did not make such a proposal in a meeting with Narendra Modi a few days ago following the Indian Prime Minister’s visit to his coury. Modi has proposed.

According to Bloomberg, Zelensky is trying to hold another summit on ending the war with Russia before the November presideial election in the United States, which will follow the previous summit in June hosted by Switzerland, and is trying to To attract the support of the couries of the “World South” block (developing couries).

This is despite the fact that in the previous summit held in Switzerland, Russia was not prese as one of the parties to the war because it was not invited, and it is unlikely that India, as Moscow’s ally in the “BRICS” bloc, will agree to hold any Ukrainian peace summit without Russia’s participation. slow Modi, who traveled to Ukraine on August 23, has not yet agreed to host a meeting on Ukraine peace, sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.

Responding to Bloomberg’s request for comme on the report, Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Randhir Jaiswal said the Indian prime minister had se a signal that he was willing to play a “constructive role” in the Ukraine peace process, although he was “yet to comme on It is too early to determine the specific conditions and paths of this process at the curre stage.

Since August 6, Ukraine has launched an infiltration operation in the Kursk region of Russia following the iensification of pressures on the iernal fro in the east against its army forces, in order to reduce these pressures a little, but the Russian army coinues to advance in the Donetsk region. Bloomberg analyzed that due to the fact that these operations are ongoing, a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine cannot be imagined in the near future.

According to Bloomberg, Serhii Nikiforov, Zelensky’s spokesman, stated that Ukraine is considering holding a supplemeary summit to the June summit in Switzerland, hosted by a coury belonging to the “Southern World” bloc and “especially India”.

In November 2022, the Preside of Ukraine unveiled his 10-poi peace plan, which includes the issues of mutual exchange of prisoners, ensuring nuclear, food and energy security. Zelensky’s peace plan also includes pois regarding the withdrawal of all Russian forces from Ukraine, the restoration of Ukraine’s complete territorial iegrity, security guaraees for Ukraine, and the creation of an iernational mechanism to compensate this coury using Russian assets. In the meaime, according to Bloomberg, he coinues to try to attract support for his 10-poi peace plan.

The American publication Bloomberg does not see a promising prospect for Zelensky’s efforts to hold a peace summit hosted by one of the couries of the “Global South” region, because the couries of this region, which are allies of Russia, request that any Ukrainian peace summit should include a seat for Russia. to be held

The summit that was held on June 15 and 16, hosted by Switzerland with the participation of more than 100 couries and organizations, mainly including Ukraine’s allies, and without the participation of Russia and China, could not attract much support to Zelensky and his peace plan at the global level. Although India, Indonesia and South Africa were among the participas in this summit, they did not sign the final stateme.

The spokesperson of the preside of Ukraine said that during Modi’s visit to this coury, Zelensky raised the issue of signing the stateme of the supplemeary summit for the Swiss summit and said that the coury hosting this summit should have signed the text of the stateme.

Senior Indian officials, who did not disclose their names, also told Bloomberg that India viewed the Ukrainian proposal with skepticism due to the issue of Russia’s non-participation. These officials stated that the governme of Narendra Modi has stated that the solution to the peace of Ukraine can only be achieved through dialogue between the two sides of the war.

According to Bloomberg, during his visit to Kiev a few days ago, which was the first visit of an Indian Prime Minister to Ukraine since the independence of this coury in 1991, the Indian Prime Minister also said that he supports the territorial iegrity of Ukraine, but also his request that the solution Diplomatic is the only path to peace in Ukraine, he emphasizes.

After the “special military operation” that Russia announced in Ukraine in February 2022, India coinues to maiain political and economic relations with Moscow, corary to the sanctions imposed by the West against Russia, and also receives oil and weapons from Russia. Narendra Modi’s visit to Ukraine followed his visit to Moscow last moh.

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