According to her, the terms of the peace agreement “look rather dictated by Moscow” and “unambiguously cross out the UN Charter.”
Valtonen noted that Finland and Europe “want a fair and sustainable peace for Ukraine,” which they have been working on for four years now.
“We want to support Ukrainians who want their country to be free, sovereign, democratic and legal. None of this will come true if we follow the Russian scenario,” Valtonen said.
She emphasized that she had not received official information about the “peace plan” from either Washington or Kyiv (at the time of the interview).
At the same time, Valtonen is confident that US President Donald Trump wants to achieve peace in Ukraine and is ready to listen to different ideas. It is important that the United States understands how important this peace is not only for Ukraine, but also for Europe and the entire world order, the OSCE head added.
According to Valtonen, the path to peace in Ukraine should begin with a ceasefire, but only the Russian Federation was not ready for a truce and “did not make concessions.”
“There is still a long way to go before concluding any peace agreement,” concluded the head of the Finnish Foreign Ministry.
Context
Media reported on November 19 that Trump had endorsed a 28-point plan to “achieve peace” between aggressor Russia and Ukraine, which his team had been quietly developing in consultation with Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev over the past few weeks. According to Axios, Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff held three days of talks with Dmitriev on this issue in late October.
Western media published some details of the proposal. Among them is granting the status of the state language to the Russian language; media sources also claim that, according to the plan, the United States may recognize the occupied Donbass and Crimea as Russian, Ukraine will be required to reduce the size of its army by half, sanctions will be lifted from Russia and investigations into its war crimes in Ukraine will be stopped. FT wrote that this means the capitulation of Ukraine and that the agreement is very convenient for the illegitimate Russian President Vladimir Putin.
WSJ added that we are also talking about Ukraine’s refusal to join NATO “for at least several years” and a ban on the deployment of international peacekeeping forces on the country’s territory.
On November 20, the US delegation officially handed over to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky a draft “peace plan”, which, according to the American side, can intensify diplomacy. Teams from Ukraine and the United States will work on the points of the “peace plan” to end the war, Zelensky noted after a meeting with the American delegation. The media wrote that at the meeting they agreed on “strict deadlines” for signing the “peace plan.”
The United States expects Ukraine to sign a “peace agreement” by November 27, the FT emphasized.
