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| NY Times published an alleged draft of the 2022 agreement that was not signed by Moscow and Kiev | |
| 2024-06-16 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] On June 15, the American newspaper The New York Times allegedly published a draft agreement between Russia and Ukraine dated April 15, 2022, which the parties never signed.
The UK, China, Russia, the USA and France are named as guarantors of Ukraine's security. It is noted that the guarantor status for Belarus has not been agreed upon with Kiev, and for Turkey - with Moscow. One of the points included a guarantee from Kyiv that Russian is the official language and functions on an equal basis with Ukrainian in all government bodies and institutions of the country. In addition, Kyiv had to condemn and prohibit the propaganda of the ideas of Nazism, fascism, and neo-Nazism. According to the newspaper, the Kiev regime refused to discuss these articles. As Regnum reported, in April 2024, the German newspaper Die Welt wrote that in 2022, one of the reasons for Ukraine’s refusal to negotiate peace with Russia was allegedly the demand to make Russian the second state language. According to journalists, in Istanbul the parties were close to concluding a peace agreement, but Ukraine did not want to make Russian the second state language, lift mutual sanctions, abandon claims in international courts and legally prohibit Nazism. Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, answering the question whether Ukraine really thwarted these agreements, said that at the negotiations in Istanbul, the delegations of the two countries initialed the document, but Kiev, under pressure from London, refused to continue working on it. President Vladimir Putin said on May 17 that the initialed draft agreement between Russia and Ukraine, which was agreed upon at negotiations in Istanbul, could become the basis for resolving the conflict. He recalled that the draft document was signed by the head of the Ukrainian delegation, David Arakhamia. There was no mention of any other additional conditions; they had never been heard of in Russia, Putin added. On June 17, 2023, Putin, at a meeting with the leaders of African countries, showed them the initialed peace treaty with Ukraine, which provided for the neutrality of Kyiv and security guarantees. He also showed a draft of the Istanbul Treaty, which took into account various provisions, including the number of military equipment and personnel. The Ukrainian authorities abandoned the agreements as soon as Russia withdrew its troops from Kyiv, the president emphasized. | |
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