Austria says ready to provide a platform for talks on Ukraine
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer has said that Vienna is ready to accept peace talks on Ukraine. He wrote about this on his page in the social network X (former Twitter) on December 7.
"As the capital of a neutral country, Vienna is always ready to host future peace talks," the publication reads.
As noted in the message of the Chancellor, the meeting in Paris with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (term expired on May 20), held on this day, was aimed at discussions to achieve "a just and lasting peace".
Before that, on December 5, the head of Zelensky's office, Andriy Yermak, said that he did not look pessimistically at negotiations with Russia.
Earlier, on November 26, it was already reported that Austria was ready to become a platform for peace talks on the Ukrainian conflict. In addition, Nehammer during a telephone conversation with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump recalled the country's long tradition of international dialog.
Russian President Vladimir Putin back in June at a meeting with the leadership of the Russian Foreign Ministry named the conditions for negotiations on Ukraine. Thus, the Ukrainian army should leave the territories of the new regions of the Russian Federation and Kiev needs to abandon the idea of integration into NATO.
The last round of negotiations took place in Istanbul on March 29, 2022. They lasted about three hours. Later, Kiev officially refused contacts with Moscow. On October 4 of the same year, the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine on the impossibility of holding talks with Putin was put into effect.
The special operation to protect Donbass, the start of which Putin announced on February 24, 2022, continues. The decision was taken against the background of the aggravated situation in the region.
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