US security guarantees are 100 per cent ready: Ukraine
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that the US document on security guarantees for Ukraine is fully ready and that officials in Kiev are waiting for the time and place to sign this document, stating that some progress was made in the talks with Russia in Abu Dhabi over the weekend.
“For us, security guarantees are, above all, a guarantee of the security of the United States. The document is 100 percent ready and we are waiting for our partners to confirm the date and place where we will sign it,” Zelenskiy said at a press conference during his visit to Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. he said.
“The document will then be sent to the US Congress and the Ukrainian parliament for approval,” he said.
On Friday and Saturday, Ukrainian and Russian negotiators held their first trilateral meeting, including US mediators, in Abu Dhabi and discussed the US framework for ending the almost four-year war, but no agreement was reached.
But a US official told reporters immediately after the weekend talks that Russia and Ukraine had both said they were open to further dialogue and further discussions were expected in Abu Dhabi next Sunday.
Zelenskiy said, “(In Abu Dhabi) the 20-point (US) plan and problematic issues are being discussed. There were many problematic issues, but now there are fewer.” he said.
He said Russia wants to do everything possible to get Ukraine to abandon eastern regions that Russian forces have not been able to capture since the large-scale invasion that triggered the war.
However, he said that he did not compromise on his stance that Ukraine’s territorial integrity should be protected.
“These are two fundamentally different positions, that of Ukraine and Russia. The Americans are trying to find compromise.” Zelenskiy said, adding that all parties, including the USA, should be ready to compromise.
