Kyiv. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that his country could put the issue of neutral status in a nationwide referendum. “If Russia’s desire for a neutral position in Ukraine is one of the provisions of the agreements to end the conflict, we are ready to consider this neutral position for Ukraine,” Xinhua news agency quoted Zelensky as saying. “
However, the referendum will be possible only if Ukraine receives security guarantees from ‘specific countries’.
At peace talks with Russia in Istanbul, Turkey, in March, Kyiv proposed the signing of a new international treaty on security guarantees that stipulates obligations of guarantor countries to provide military assistance to Ukraine in the event of an attack.
The Ukrainian parliament relinquished Ukraine’s ‘non-aligned’ status in 2014 with the aim of deepening cooperation with NATO.
—AnyTV News
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