Outgoing Secretary General urges NATO members to back Ukraine's peace plan, not China's

Jens Stoltenberg, who is soon to step down as NATO Secretary General, believes that NATO member states should support the Ukrainian peace formula rather than alternative proposals from other countries.

Source: Stoltenberg in an interview for Politico, as reported by European Pravda

Details: Asked about Türkiye’s participation in the Sino-Brazilian "Friends of Peace" initiative, which is promoting their "peace initiative", Stoltenberg replied that the Alliance "should support the Ukrainian initiative".

"The Ukrainian peace initiative is an initiative that ensures that we have a process that can lead to a lasting peace. And of course, it has to be the Ukrainians that, at the end of the day, decide what are acceptable conditions. They are the victim of a full-scale invasion," Stoltenberg said.

Background: 

• Earlier Hungary and Switzerland expressed their support for the Sino-Brazilian "peace initiative".
• This initiative, announced in May 2024, is a list of six points, none of which mentions the UN Statute or Ukraine’s territorial integrity. Instead, there is a call for "combat action to be stopped, non-escalation of the conflict and non-proliferation of it to new territories".
• A group of 17 countries has joined the Sino-Brazilian "Friends of Peace" initiative, and so far Türkiye is the only NATO member among them.
• President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has described the Sino-Brazilian proposal to end the Russo-Ukrainian war as "destructive", since it is a mere political statement that has not been discussed with Ukraine.

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