vice-president Jd vance And Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a raised challenge meeting at this year’s Munich Security Conference to discuss the Trump administration’s efforts to end the Ukraine war. Vance said the United States was looking for a “sustainable” peace, while Zelenskyy expressed the desire for in -depth discussion to prepare for the conflict at the end.
“We want the murder to stop, but we want to achieve lasting and lasting peace,” said Vance. “It is not the kind of peace that will have Eastern Europe in conflict a few years to a few years.”
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Zelenskyy thanked Vance for Reunion, but underlined the need to meet the security of Ukraine’s security in the negotiation of the end of the conflict, which is about to enter its fourth year.
“Really, what we need is to talk more, work more and prepare the plan how to stop Putin and finish the war,” said Zelensky. “We want it very much, but we need real security guarantees.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the special envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg, and the special assistant envoy for the Middle East Morgan Ortagus were at the table with Vance.
President Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zelenskyy Wednesday and ordered its national security team to start working on negotiations at the end of the war in Ukraine.
The secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, met Zelenskyy in kyiv on Wednesday, the first senior Trump administration to meet in person with the Ukrainian president since the second term of Mr. Trump.
After this meeting, Zelenskyy said that Ukraine would prepare an agreement to strengthen the security and economic relations of Ukraine with the United States, linked to minerals of the country’s rare earths.
Trump said before the Munich meeting that helping Ukraine could be conditioned on access to minerals of rare earths in the country.
“We are going to have all this money in there, and I say that I want it to come back. And I told them that I wanted the equivalent, like $ 500 billion in rare land,” recently told Fox News. “They essentially agreed to do so, so at least we don’t feel stupid.”
The Republican senator Lindsey Graham from South Caroline said on Friday that the United States is expected to arm Ukraine with “a group” of F-16 fighter planes in exchange for minerals.
“How do you dissuade Putin? You arm this guy to the teeth,” Graham said in Munich while appearing alongside several of his colleagues from the Senate and Zelenskyy on a panel. “So, we can do this type. Let’s agree with minerals, so we will have our American commercial interest. Putin does not understand what is happening. If we sign this mineral agreement, Putin is screwed because Trump will defend the agreement. “”
Graham has also said that NATO membership for Ukraine should stay on the table as a threat to Putin.
“If we cannot agree that they should be in NATO as at the moment, can we agree that if there is never another invasion, when they invaded, they would go in NATO”, said Graham. “I think we will let Putin know that if he starts again, they go very quickly in NATO.”
During the rally last year in Munich, Vance, then American senator, refused to meet Zelenskyy, Politico At the time, he did not think that he would “learn something new”.
The vice-president also met on Friday with NATO secretary general, Mark Rutte, German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier and British Foreign Minister David Lammy.
A regulation negotiated to put an end to the war in Ukraine was a central objective of vance discussions with the world leaders of the conference this week, sources told CBS News.
Vance did not answer journalists’ questions when they were asked if Ukraine should be able to join NATO.
Trump said in the oval office on Wednesday that he was “ok” taking the idea that Ukraine joined NATO from the negotiating table, characterizing the proposal as “non -practical”.
In remarks at the conference, Vance reiterated that Mr. Trump would like the European allies of NATO to contribute at least 5% of their gross domestic product to increased security expenses, and he also pointed out this point during meetings with European leaders.
“Although the Trump administration is very concerned about European security and considers that we can achieve a reasonable regulation between Russia and Ukraine, we also think that it is important in the years to come for Europe Intense in an important way to provide for his own defense, “said Vance.
Vance gave European conferences at the conference, saying to them: “The threat I worry most of Europe is not Russia; it is not China.”
“What worries me is the threat of the interior, the retirement of Europe of some of its most fundamental values, the values shared with the United States of America,” said the vice- president.
And he condemned the implementing measures taken by European allies against their citizens, noting the condemnation for incentive in Sweden of a man who burned a Koran, raids in Germany of people suspected of having published online a speech of misogynistic hate, and a case in Great Britain involving the conviction of a man accused of having violated the security zone near a clinic of abortion to pray.
“I deeply believe that there is no security if you are afraid of the voices and opinions that guide your people,” said Vance, adding: “If you run in the fear of your own voters, it does not There’s nothing that America can do for you. ”
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Olivia Rinaldi
