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Kiev rejects Kissinger's peace proposal

2022-12-20 07:56:35Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Kiev rejects Kissinger's peace proposal

Veteran US diplomat Henry Kissinger said the time is nearing for a negotiated peace in Ukraine to reduce the risk of another devastating world war. But Kiev dismissed his comments as an attempt to "pacify the aggressor" adding that there could be no deal involving the relinquishment of its territory.

Ninety-nine-year-old Kissinger has met numerous times with Russia's Vladimir Putin since he became president in 2000. Mr. Kissinger is known as the architect of American policy toward the Soviet Union during the Cold War when he served as secretary of state under Republican presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.


The war in Ukraine, which began with the attack of the Russian army on February 24, has no end in sight. So far, tens of thousands of people have been killed and millions more driven from their homes. The United States and Western allies have criticized the attack.

Russia currently controls about a fifth of Ukraine's territory.

The Kremlin says that Kiev must accept Moscow's annexation of the southern and eastern regions. Ukraine, on the other hand, demands that any Russian soldiers leave its territory, as well as Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014. Kiev submitted its application to join NATO after Moscow annexed additional new Ukrainian territories. in September of this year.

"The time is approaching to work on the strategic changes that have now been achieved and to integrate them into a new structure, with the aim of achieving peace through negotiations," Mr. Kissinger wrote in "The Spectator" magazine.

"A peace process must connect Ukraine with NATO, no matter how it is done. The alternative of neutrality no longer makes sense", he continued.

The conflict in eastern Ukraine began in 2014 after a pro-Russian president was overthrown in Ukraine and Russia annexed Crimea, with Russian-backed separatists fighting Ukraine's armed forces.

"Mr. Kissinger still has not understood anything ... neither the nature of this war, nor its impact on the world order", wrote on the social network "Telegram" the assistant of the Ukrainian president, Mykhailo Podolyak.

"The recipe that the former Secretary of State offers, but is afraid to say out loud, is simple: appease the aggressor by sacrificing parts of Ukraine with guarantees not to attack other Eastern European states."

He added that "all supporters of easy solutions should remember what seems obvious: any deal with the devil, a poorly negotiated peace at the expense of Ukrainian territories, will be a victory for Putin and a recipe for success for the autocrats in around the world".

Aaron David Miller, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment think tank, also rejected Mr. Kissinger's proposal.

The director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), William Burns, said in an interview published on Saturday that while most conflicts end with negotiations, the CIA's assessment was that Russia is not yet serious about negotiations to end it. the war.

Vladimir Putin regards what he calls a "special military operation" as a defining moment when Russia finally stood up to the West. Moscow says the West is led by the United States, which it accuses of seeking to profit from the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 by destroying Russia.

Ukraine and the West say President Putin has no justification for what they say is an imperial-style war of conquest.

Henry Kissinger warned that the desire to make Russia "powerless", or even to seek the dissolution of Russia, could incite chaos. Neither Ukraine nor any Western country has asked for such a thing. /VOA


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