“Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha reported that the 20-point peace agreement to resolve the russian-Ukrainian war will be signed by Ukraine with the United States, while the United States will separately sign a document with russia”, - writes European Pravda.
Sybiha emphasized that the 20-point agreement, which is currently at the center of the peace process, is a bilateral document.
“If we speak strictly about this 20-point framework, at the moment it is a bilateral document that will be signed by the United States and Ukraine. And with russia — it should be signed by the United States. As of today, this is exactly the structure being discussed, but negotiations are still ongoing”, - the minister said.
It is worth noting that one of the points of the peace plan concerns Ukraine’s accession to the EU. Commenting on this, the minister stated that “even if there is no EU signature on the document, it cannot contain any provisions that have not been agreed with European allies”.
Although discussions include the idea of accession in 2027, Sybiha noted that the date is “a complicated issue”. “The EU has its own procedures, and in some aspects we are hostages to the consensus-based approach”, - he said, urging not to create excessive expectations regarding the accession date.
As for European participation in approving the “peace documents”, the European side, according to Sybiha, “is present in the peace process and in the agreements on security guarantees”.
“By the way, it is important that for the first time the discussion is specifically about the term ‘security guarantees’, rather than ‘assurances’ or something similar”, - the foreign minister added.
He stressed that security guarantees must be legally binding in nature. “Therefore, it is important that there is agreement on the need to ratify the guarantees — in particular, their ratification in the U.S. Congress”, - Sybiha noted.