A special US presidential envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg speaks
Victor Pinchuk Foundation
A special US presidential envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg said on Saturday that the plan of peace for two fighting nations could take place within a few days or weeks.
“I have time for Trump,” Kellogg said to the delegates at a fine event at a security conference in Munich, referring to the famous quick decision making by US President Donald Trump.
“He will ask you to do this job today and tomorrow he will want to know why he was not solved,” said Kellogg, a key negotiator for Ukraine and the Allied nations in recently complex peaceful talks.
“You have to give us some breath of space and time, but when I say this, I don't say six months, I say days and weeks,” he said.
Kellogg said that there was currently a “double” approach to peace conversations, with American contact representatives with Russia and separately with Ukraine and allied nations. For his part, Kellogg said that he worked on behalf of the latter grouping and insisted – as opposed to previous US suggestions – that both Ukraine and Europe must be part of these conversations.
“You must take allies with you. Will they (Ukraine and Europe) play a role? Of course they are. You can't do it after excluding anyone, “he said.
“We want to make sure that it is ongoing and it is a balanced room,” he added.
Europe may not be physically at the table for peace conversations
Then Kellogg explained that Europe cannot physically be at the table for peace conversations, but the interests of the region will be taken into account.
“We don't want to take part in a large group discussion,” he said.
Asked if he could outline the requirements for a reliable security guarantee for Ukraine, Kellogg said he couldn't do it yet.
“The answer is not now,” he said, noting that he was at the conference to collect insights from Ukraine and Europe. Sometimes the United States has a “problem with browsing their own lens,” he added.
Global defense and security officials are gathered in Munich in Germany at an annual three -day conference, during which the future of Ukraine, peace conversations with Russia and transforming the architecture of security and defense in Europe, are In the foreground of the discussion.
The prospects of the peace agreement returned to the fore this week after President Trump had separate phone calls with Putin and later Zelenskyy. After the initial indication that a bilateral agreement can be concluded between Washington and Moscow, he later said that Zelenskyy Ukraine would be involved, along with “many other people.”
Despite this, the fears about the involvement of Europe in negotiations clouded this event, and the best EU officials insisted that they exist Without a lasting room without them.
Speaking on the panel next to Kellogg on Saturday, the Prime Minister of Croatia Andrej Plenković said that it is extremely important that there is no “no” peace agreement, but provides Ukraine's territorial integrity. He added that the exclusion of Europe from conversations would be “politically unacceptable”, taking into account long transatlantic ties between Europe and the USA
Turning to delegates from the audience, the Prime Minister of Iceland, Kristrún Frostadóttir, also cited a general sense of disturbance in Europe to the new US administration.
“People are still not sure what the US wants to do,” she said. “It is difficult for leaders to constantly react to unclear comments.”