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Ceasefire a long way off: Ukraine negotiations in Turkey without result

2022-03-11T03:59:42.532Z


Ceasefire a long way off: Ukraine negotiations in Turkey without result Created: 03/11/2022 04:47 By: Stefan Krieger, Christian Stör The foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine meet in Turkey for talks. But there is no progress. In the Ukraine conflict*, diplomatic efforts continue. The foreign ministers of Russia* and Ukraine* met for negotiations in Turkey. There is no peace in sight in the


Ceasefire a long way off: Ukraine negotiations in Turkey without result

Created: 03/11/2022 04:47

By: Stefan Krieger, Christian Stör

The foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine meet in Turkey for talks.

But there is no progress.

  • In the Ukraine conflict*, diplomatic efforts continue.

    The foreign ministers of Russia* and Ukraine* met for negotiations in Turkey.

  • There is no peace in sight in the Ukraine war*.

    The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj* calls for talks at the presidential level with Vladimir Putin*.

  • You can read all the news and information about the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in the news ticker.

+++ 1.30 p.m .:

The Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, was cautiously optimistic despite the lack of progress in the negotiations with Russia and Ukraine.

"Nobody expected that this meeting would solve all the problems, but a start had to be made," Cavusoglu said after talks between Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.

Cavusoglu was there as an intermediary.

According to Cavusoglu, the meeting was an important start.

Now he hopes that the contacts will be continued so that trust can be created.

The meeting of the three ministers took place in a "difficult climate" but was civilized, said Cavusoglu.

He again called for a permanent ceasefire and evacuation corridors for civilians in Ukraine.

Turkey will continue to be available as a mediator in the future, emphasized Cavusoglu.

Ceasefire a long way off: Ukraine negotiations in Turkey without result

+++ 1:00 p.m .:

In the Ukraine war, even after a first high-level attempt at conciliation, there is no path to peace in sight.

In any case, the foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine have little to report after their talks in Turkey.

Two weeks after the start of the Russian attack on the neighboring country, it was not possible to agree on at least a temporary ceasefire or even further escape corridors.

Turkey had offered itself as a mediator between Ukraine and Russia - the meeting between Kuleba and Lavrov was therefore held in Antalya.

© Cem Ozdel/Turkish Foreign Ministry/AP/dpa

Kuleba complained that Lavrov was unable to agree escape corridors himself, not even for the port city of Mariupol, which was suffering particularly badly.

The Russian foreign minister must discuss this in Moscow.

A 24-hour ceasefire was also discussed, but: "It seems that these decisions are being made by others in Russia." Kuleba further emphasized that Ukraine is ready for diplomatic solutions.

But he also made it clear: "Ukraine has not surrendered, is not surrendering and will not surrender!"

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Ukraine negotiations in Turkey: Russia wants to continue talking

+++ 11:50 a.m.:

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov confirmed that Russia wanted to continue negotiations with Ukraine.

At the same time, he described arms deliveries from Western countries to Ukraine as "dangerous".

"Of course, those who stuff arms in Ukraine must understand that they bear responsibility for their actions," Lavrov said in Antalya.

He was referring primarily to man-portable surface-to-air missiles.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba described the negotiations as "difficult".

Lavrov told the "usual stories".

Kuleba said it was about a 24-hour ceasefire, and Lavrov wanted to talk about escape corridors.

"We are open to diplomacy, but if that doesn't work, we will protect our country and our people."

Ukraine talks in Turkey: No progress on ceasefire

+++ 11.14 a.m .:

Apparently no relevant progress was made at the meeting of the foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine in Antalya.

"We talked about a ceasefire, but no progress was made in this regard," Kuleba told journalists in Antalya, Turkey, on Thursday (March 10, 2022).

It was also not possible to agree on humanitarian corridors for the city of Mariupol on the Azov Sea, Kuleba said.

However, he had agreed with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to "continue the talks in this format".

+++ 9:53 a.m .:

For the first time since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Ukrainian colleague Dmytro Kuleba met in Turkey.

The two politicians sat opposite each other in a hall in Antalya on Thursday morning (March 10, 2022) in the presence of Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Çavusoglu, as can be seen in a photo from the Russian Foreign Ministry.

According to information from Kyiv, the meeting was intended to explore ways of ending the war in Ukraine.

As a condition for a cessation of fighting, Russia is demanding that Ukraine declare itself neutral in its constitution.

In addition, Kyiv must recognize the annexed Black Sea peninsula of Crimea as Russian and the separatist areas of Luhansk and Donetsk as independent states.

So far, Ukraine has largely rejected this.

However, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has shown himself willing to talk and recently indicated a certain willingness to compromise.

"I'll tell you quite frankly that I have low expectations of the negotiations," Kuleba said on Wednesday.

"But we will undoubtedly apply maximum pressure."

Ukraine talks: Foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine arrive in Turkey

+++ 7.30 a.m .:

The foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine, Sergey Lavrov and Dmytro Kuleba, have arrived in Turkey for negotiations.

Kuleba landed in Antalya for talks "about the cessation of Russian hostilities and the end of the war against Ukraine," a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry in Kyiv wrote on Twitter on Wednesday evening.

A Turkish government official told the AFP news agency that Lavrov had also arrived.

Update from March 10, 2022, 3:10 a.m .:

Before the first personal meeting of the foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine since the start of the Russian attack on the neighboring country, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan emphasized Turkey’s mediating role.

Turkey is still able to talk "both with Ukraine and with Russia," Erdogan emphasized on Wednesday (March 9, 2022).

However, Ukraine and a Western representative expressed pessimism about the prospects for the meeting.

The meeting on Thursday (March 10, 2022) in Antalya is about "preventing the crisis from developing into a tragedy," emphasized Erdogan.

Talks between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who arrived in Antalya on Wednesday, and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba are scheduled to start in Antalya on Thursday around 9:30 to 10:00 a.m. local time (7:30 to 8:00 a.m. CET).

They are accompanied by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.


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+++ 6.25 p.m .:

Chancellor Olaf Scholz called Russian President Vladimir Putin because of the Ukraine war.

The top politicians discussed "political-diplomatic efforts" to resolve the conflict, the Kremlin said in Moscow.

The Federal Press Office in Berlin confirmed the call.

The Kremlin also announced that Putin had also spoken to Scholz about Russia's negotiations with Ukraine.

Nothing was communicated from the German side about the content.

+++ 3.45 p.m .:

In the Ukraine war, there is great hope that negotiations will sooner or later lead to peace.

The first official talks at government level between the two warring parties since the invasion of Russian troops are now scheduled for Thursday (March 10, 2022) in Antalya, Turkey.

However, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba does not believe in a breakthrough ahead of the meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov.

"I'll tell you quite frankly that I have low expectations for the negotiations," Kuleba said in a video clip published on Facebook.

"But we will undoubtedly exert maximum pressure," emphasized Kuleba.

Kuleba said he hoped that Lavrov actually wanted to find a solution on how to end the war - "and not for propaganda reasons".

Update from Wednesday, March 9th, 2022, 2:45 p.m.:

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called on Vladimir Putin to end the Ukraine war immediately.

"My appeal to the Russian President is: stop the bloodshed, withdraw the Russian troops," said Scholz at a joint press conference with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Berlin.

"It is a terrible catastrophe for the Ukrainian people, but the Russian people are also suffering from this war." The Russian attack on Ukraine was "a blatant breach of international law and the world we live in is not the same now," said Scholz, who spoke of a "turning point for Europe".

Hopes for peace are currently resting primarily on negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.

While Volodymyr Zelenskyy is hoping for a meeting with Putin at presidential level, the first official talks at government level since February 24 between the two foreign ministers are planned for Thursday (March 10, 2022) (see initial report).

Ukraine war: Foreign ministers meet in Turkey for talks

First report from Wednesday, March 9th, 2022:

Moscow – The Ukraine war continues unabated, more than two million people have now fled the country.

The calls for new negotiations between the two warring parties are getting louder.

Now a meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Ukrainian colleague Dmytro Kuleba, scheduled for Thursday (March 10, 2022), gives a little bit of new hope for an end to the war.

"As for the meeting of foreign ministers, it is a continuation of the negotiation process, which is very important," said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

Kuleba and Lavrov want to meet in Antalya, Turkey - it would be the highest-ranking conversation since the beginning of the war.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is ready to meet Vladimir Putin.

© Uncredited/Ukrainian Presidential Press Office/AP/dpa

Russia is also interested in further rounds of talks with Ukrainian representatives, emphasized Peskov, who again pointed out two core Russian demands: the recognition of the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, annexed in 2014, as Russian territory and the independence of the self-proclaimed eastern Ukrainian "People's Republics" of Donetsk and Luhansk.

War in Ukraine: Negotiations on escape corridors continue

In the past two weeks, a Russian and a Ukrainian delegation have already met three times in the Belarusian border area for negotiations.

Escape corridors for civilians were agreed, but their implementation has repeatedly failed in the end.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told journalists in Moscow that another round would focus primarily on escape corridors for civilians.

She also pointed out that Russia is not seeking to overthrow the Ukrainian government.

"Some progress has been made in the negotiations with Ukraine," said Zakharova.

The Russian troops were not tasked with "overthrowing the current government".

Ukraine war: Zelenskyj calls for direct negotiations with Putin

Meanwhile, Ukraine has not ruled out discussing the country's possible neutrality in negotiations with Russia.

"Such questions could be discussed in negotiations, that is quite possible," said Volodymyr Zelenskyj's foreign policy adviser Ihor Showkwa in the ARD daily topics.

At the same time, he called for Zelenskyy to have direct talks with Vladimir Putin.

Showkwa campaigned for a presidential-level meeting.

He emphasized that serious negotiations would only be possible if the Russian President met Zelenskyy.

Selenskyj is ready for this.

Unfortunately, the Russian side is not willing to do this.

However, such negotiations and a possible agreement could only come about when the hostilities had ceased and there was a ceasefire.

Ukraine war: Negotiations on neutrality conceivable

Then one could discuss "what it could look like with a possible neutrality of Ukraine," said Showkwa.

"We therefore need strict guarantees so that such a situation can never occur again," he added.

"We are not the aggressors, we will never be the aggressors." Since 2019, the goal of joining NATO has been laid down in the Ukrainian constitution.

Russia is demanding that Ukraine renounce this and declare itself neutral.

(cs with dpa/AFP)

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Source: merkur

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