The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmerhe announced this Sunday that his country will present to the United States, Next to France and Ukrainea high fire proposal with the final intention of an American negotiating delegation to transfer it to the Russian government for its evaluation and advanced that will propose the creation of a coalition of countries to accelerate the European response to the war in Ukraine and guarantee continental security.
In an interview with the British BBC chain, Starmer has not abounded in details on the terms of the proposal but has dropped that he will directly address one of the great concerns of the Ukrainian President, Volodimir Zelenskiin the face of a possible negotiation with Russia: Receive the necessary security guarantees that Moscow will not break any agreement They can reach about it.
In this sense, and also with the intention of accelerating the reaction on the Ukrainian conflict and to generally satisfy European security in a hypothetical postwar scenario, Starmer has spoken of a “Coalition of the willing”a term that went to the collective imaginary during the Iraq war, referring to the multinational force organized by the United States deployed in the Arab country during the 2003 invasion.
“We have to clarify what a European security guarantee would be like”Starmer has declared the BBC before the beginning of the European leaders this Sunday in London. “I recognize that it is most likely that it is a coalition of those arranged or, in other words, European countries that are willing to take another step,” he explained.
According to Starmer, His country and France are the “most advanced in this reflection“, And he has indicated his intention to continue conversations with the French president, Emmanuel Macronto draw the master lines of a plan that will then discuss with the United States. The British prime minister wanted to clarify that his proposal “does not represent an attempt to exclusion.”
“I want to try to be The more countries the better, but we must move towards a current and agile form of currentand I think this kind of coalition is the best formula, “he said.
“For me, the components of lasting peace are a strong ukraine to fightif necessary, to be in a position of force; as well as negotiating a European element for security guarantees, and that is why I have been affecting this, “added the British prime minister before estimating that the United States would play a” protection barrier “role in this whole process.
The crisis between Trump and Zelenski
British prime minister has also addressed the Strong public discussion between Zelenksi and Trump in the White Housewhere both leaders staged their diametrically opposite positions about the American plan to open direct conversations with the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, to reach a high fire; Negotiations in which Europe and kyiv could occupy a background.
“I think that No one wanted to see something like that, especially with the cameras recording“Starmer lamented before explaining that the intention of his government is to offer himself as a” bridge “to save differences between Washington and kyiv. Hence the plan that is making with France, Ukraine” and perhaps one or two more countries to stop fighting “, which” we will “present later to the United States”, in what he described as “a step in the right direction.”
Starmer who declared his support for Donald Trump’s intentions to end the conflict in Ukraine – “It seems to me a man looking for a lasting peace” – He also defended Zelenski’s behavior during the discussion with the US president and his vice president JD Vance. “He is a man whose country has been at war for three years and I think he did nothing wrong,” British Prime Minister has wielded.
