“I informed President Biden of a major international meeting on the peace formula, which will be held in Malta this month,” Volodymyr Zelensky said in his address to the nation on Thursday evening, during which he spoke of a phone conversation with the president. Its counterpart in North America.
He added, “The United States supports the implementation of the peace formula.”
Zelensky also referred to his conversation with UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday, in which he praised the United Nations’ “active participation in global efforts on the formula for peace.”
According to the Ukrainian president, the United Nations is “ready to send a representative to the next meeting,” which he explained will bring together advisors from presidents or governments that support the document.
The Malta meeting will be the third organized by Ukraine in this way. The previous two meetings, which were held this year in Denmark and Saudi Arabia, were attended by dozens of advisors from governments and presidents from all over the world, and were called for by the head of the Ukrainian presidential office, Andriy Yermak.
Ukraine intends to organize a summit to agree on a peace formula in the presence of the largest possible number of world leaders, but many of the leaders who sent advisors to the meeting have close relations with Russia and were not present.
Among the points of Zelensky’s peace plan are the return of military and civilian prisoners, environmental protection, nuclear security, energy and food security. The main point is to restore territorial integrity recognized by the United Nations.
Critics classify the plan as utopian, as one of its conditions is the complete withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine.
