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UN in New York discusses ways to end war in Ukraine Ukraine rejects China’s peace plan as it presents its own “victory plan”.

New York – When the war in Ukraine comes to an end, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky wants to cover all the events: that is why he plans to present his “victory plan” not only to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, but also to Donald Trump – because from January 20th he can become the President of the United States again. However, Zelensky would prefer it to be a binding decision by December. Before heading to Washington for talks on Thursday, Zelenskiy was at the UN General Assembly in New York and yesterday at the UN.

It has yet to become concrete, but the “victory plan” appears to be an addition to the 10-point “peace formula” first presented by Zelenskyj in 2022. “The victory plan deals with how war is fought, the peace plan deals with how peace can be achieved,” explained EU foreign policy chief Joseph Borrell. According to Zelensky’s chief of staff Andriy Yermak, the demand for Ukraine to join NATO is part of a “victory plan”. According to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, another “mandatory point” is that Ukraine will not accept temporary Russian occupation of its territories on the road to peace.

The ‘peace plans’ favored by Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) and Ukrainian President Zelensky (right) to end the war in Ukraine could not be more different. © IMAGO/Xinhua/ZUMA Press Wire/Lev Radin

End of Ukraine war: China’s proposal very different from ‘victory plan’

According to media reports, Zelensky’s plan to end the war in Ukraine includes more financial aid and the provision of long-range weapons and permission to use them in Russia. What are these demands? China Totally against the idea of ​​ending the war in Ukraine.

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China’s UN ambassador, Geng Shuang, announced on September 13 at a preparatory conference for the UN General Assembly in New York that no further arms deliveries to Ukraine would be allowed. They led to “an escalation of the situation and further loss of civilian life”. However, China considers supplying weapons components to an aggressive Russia, which Geng did not mention anyway, harmless.

Vladyslav Vlasyuk, an adviser to the Ukrainian president on sanctions policy, said on Tuesday that “if you take all types of common weapons and calculate how many foreign components are in them, about 60 percent are produced in the PRC or imported from there. Uractive to reporters in Brussels. This includes microchips, circuit boards and other critical components installed in Russian drones and missiles.

China and Brazil’s six-point plan to end the war in Ukraine is unclear

Last May, China and Brazil released a six-point plan to end the war in Ukraine. The article is not particularly specific: it advocates non-proliferation and direct negotiations, humanitarian aid and prisoner-of-war exchanges and no attacks on civilians, no use of weapons of mass destruction and no attacks on nuclear power plants. In addition, the stability of global industrial and supply chains must be protected.

Although Ukraine has already spoken out against it, now the two BRICS partners are trying to put their plan back on the agenda in New York. In the position paper for the 2024 General Assembly, Austria about this standard China insists it wants to “continue to work for a political solution to the Ukraine crisis in its own way”, while “all parties’ legitimate security concerns” must be taken seriously. Russia is nowhere mentioned – not even the word “war”.

According to the Ukrainian diplomat, this choice of words particularly irritates Ukraine standard declared. “China can certainly be a mediator, but China cannot impose anything on us,” he continued. By demanding an end to Western arms supplies, China is effectively denying Ukraine its right to self-defense.

Nevertheless, China can play an important role for peace in Ukraine

That Ukraine is fundamentally open to Chinese mediation to end the war in Ukraine was demonstrated by its Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba’s visit to the People’s Republic last July. “A just peace in Ukraine is in China’s strategic interests and China’s role as a global peace force is crucial,” Zelensky’s top diplomat said at the time.

If China takes a firm stand on the critical issues of future borders and security guarantees for Ukraine, it could participate in the process Zelenskyj wants to initiate to end the war in Ukraine. “I believe we are closer to peace than we think,” Zelensky said in an interview with the American Broadcasting Corporation. ABC News.

Any decision on whether to support all or part of the “Victory Plan” now depends on Biden, a senior US State Department official told US News Agency on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. Associated Press (AP) The military component of the plan includes what Ukraine needs in the short term to force Russia to the negotiating table. Politically, he has to answer the question of how to appease the Ukrainian people in Western institutions such as the European Union and NATO.

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