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Ukraine to start talks with US on security guarantees, senior official says
- The US consultations are a follow-up on pledges issued by G7 countries after the recent Nato summit in Lithuania to draw up and honour security guarantees
- Andriy Yermak, Ukraine’s chief of staff, said the security guarantees will ensure ‘Ukraine’s capacity to defeat and restrain Russian aggression in the future’
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Ukraine is to start consultations with the United States this week on providing security guarantees for Kyiv pending the completion of the process of joining Nato, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff said on Sunday.
Andriy Yermak, writing on the Telegram messaging app, also said officials from a number of countries were preparing to meet in Saudi Arabia to discuss Zelensky’s peace plan for Ukraine, based on the departure of all Russian troops.
Yermak did not say when the next meeting would take place but said the plan would be discussed in three phases, leading up to a meeting of heads of state and government.
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The Wall Street Journal first reported on the meeting in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, saying it would be held in Jeddah on August 5 and 6.
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The talks on security guarantees with the United States are a follow-up on pledges issued by the G7 (Group of Seven) advanced countries after this month’s Nato summit in Lithuania to draw up and honour security guarantees.
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“We are starting talks with the United States (this) week,” Yermak wrote on Telegram.
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