Another resolution conference is needed of the conflict in Ukraine, but with the participation of Russia. This was stated by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz during the budget debate in the Bundestag, TASS reports, quoted by News.bg.
"I'll say it again. This is when we need to explore what options exist. It is correct when the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky claims, and I will repeat it, that we need a new peace conference with Russia at the negotiating table," he stressed. "That's the task we have to tackle now to figure out what's going on."
Scholz stressed that "a peace that respects the integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine must be just, not imposed or achieved through capitulation."
"We made a lot of efforts to make this possible with the peace conferences that took place around the world: in Denmark, in Saudi Arabia, in Malta, in Switzerland," he noted. "This must not stop, even if we know that some of those who voted for right-wing populist parties did so because they disagreed with our support for Ukraine," Scholz concluded, referring to the election results in Saxony and Thuringia in eastern Germany.
On September 8, Scholz said that the time was ripe to discuss how to achieve peace and again called for Russia to participate in a new meeting to resolve the crisis.
The conference on Ukraine was held in Bürgenstock on June 15-16. Switzerland, which organized the event by agreement with the authorities in Kiev, did not invite Russia. Delegations from a number of countries, including China, were absent from the forum. None of the BRICS member countries supported the final communique.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the conference had turned into a complete fiasco and that "such gatherings cannot serve as a basis for sustainable peace."