Bloomberg: Zelensky asked India to host the Ukraine peace summit

According to Isna, the Bloomberg website quoted “informed sources” and wrote that Ukrainian President 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 country. Modi has proposed.

According to Bloomberg, Zelensky is trying to hold another summit on ending the war with Russia before the November presidential 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 countries of the “World South” block (developing countries).

This is despite the fact that in the previous summit held in Switzerland, Russia was not present 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 comment on the report, Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Randhir Jaiswal said the Indian prime minister had sent a signal that he was willing to play a “constructive role” in the Ukraine peace process, although he was “yet to comment on It is too early to determine the specific conditions and paths of this process at the current stage.

Since August 6, Ukraine has launched an infiltration operation in the Kursk region of Russia following the intensification of pressures on the internal front in the east against its army forces, in order to reduce these pressures a little, but the Russian army continues 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 supplementary summit to the June summit in Switzerland, hosted by a country belonging to the “Southern World” bloc and “especially India”.

In November 2022, the President of Ukraine unveiled his 10-point peace plan, which includes the issues of mutual exchange of prisoners, ensuring nuclear, food and energy security. Zelensky’s peace plan also includes points regarding the withdrawal of all Russian forces from Ukraine, the restoration of Ukraine’s complete territorial integrity, security guarantees for Ukraine, and the creation of an international mechanism to compensate this country using Russian assets. In the meantime, according to Bloomberg, he continues to try to attract support for his 10-point 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 countries of the “Global South” region, because the countries 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 countries 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 participants in this summit, they did not sign the final statement.

The spokesperson of the president of Ukraine said that during Modi’s visit to this country, Zelensky raised the issue of signing the statement of the supplementary summit for the Swiss summit and said that the country hosting this summit should have signed the text of the statement.

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 government 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 country in 1991, the Indian Prime Minister also said that he supports the territorial integrity 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 continues to maintain political and economic relations with Moscow, contrary 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 month.

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