UN upholds readiness to help peace efforts in Ukraine | EUROtoday

Stéphane Dujarric was responding to a journalist’s query concerning the assembly held the day prior to this between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, his American counterpart Donald Trump, and a number of other European leaders on the White House.

It adopted talks final week between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Alaska.

Engagement and dialogue

“It’s very important that all involved continue to stay actively engaged in what we want to see as an inclusive dialogue to sustain the important momentum that was created to bring an immediate ceasefire and sustainable peace in Ukraine,” he mentioned.

Nearly 4 years have handed since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine and greater than 13,000 civilians have been killed, UN human rights screens within the nation have reported.  

Mr. Dujarric was requested if the Secretary-General had any touch upon the potential of a gathering between the Russian and Ukrainian Presidents.

While noting that there’s a lot dialogue round “potential dialogues or formats”, as well as location, he said “it is obviously important that those parties who are directly involved in this conflict be able to speak to each other directly.”

Asked what position the UN might play on this course of, he mentioned the worldwide physique will probably be “supportive and ready to engage in a role that may or may not be given to us based on the principles that the Secretary-General has often reiterated.”

When pressed about whether or not UN peacekeepers might be deployed to Ukraine, Mr. Dujarric harassed that “any peacekeeping mission anywhere would have to go through the Security Council.”