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<\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\u201cThe United States is going through a very challenging period. I worked there in 2009-2012, and even then I noticed a striking difference between the American elite, which began to increasingly acquire ideas of liberalism, all kinds of equality, and a stagnant rural religious life of the hinterland,\u201d Vadym Prystaiko noted.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
As for Europe, he believes it is losing leadership. While remaining a spiritual ideological leader, the continent no longer plays a significant role in the economy or in creating new meanings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want to say that the European page has closed, but Europe is really no longer a producer of even ideological content. Apart from Eurovision, we can hardly name any other cultural products that are consumed all over the world,\u201d the diplomat added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What should Ukraine do in this situation? Valeriy Chaly touched upon the issue of preserving national identity as a cornerstone, around which a struggle is raging. Vadym Prystaiko, for his part, advised not only to stick to the accepted red lines in negotiations, but also to strengthen communication at the internal and external levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cNow we are still trying to explain to our partners what we believe does not even need to be explained. It\u2019s clear who attacked whom, and our attempts to explain it to them, the skirmishes that are taking place, are sad for me as a diplomat to watch. I realize that this is not the way to go. On the other hand, diplomacy is often just a straightforward, honest, open, clear conversation that allows a diplomat to set the framework and then act. And one of the frameworks is that we will not agree to the possibility of exchanging territories, and all the Witkoffs should stay outside this discussion,\u201d the guest emphasized. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The diplomats paid much attention to discussing the format of peacekeepers. According to the Chairman of the UCMC Board, this issue is already overdue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe format discussed in Great Britain is Peace enforcement \u2013 one or two fully equipped brigades. The format proposed by the President of France can be called peacekeepers. Can this give us a realistic leverage for negotiations on sending international peacekeeping forces to Ukraine this year?\u201d he asked his colleague.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vadym Prystaiko believes that it should have been done much earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI can\u2019t understand at all why, on the first day of Macron\u2019s statement a year ago, we did not submit a draft law on the admission of French armed forces to the territory of Ukraine for consideration to the Verkhovna Rada. We should be a little smarter, see the situation more broadly and use all the tools that are allowed and are in our hands,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Valeriy Chaly added that currently, bilateral documents allow this to be done, and this is Ukraine\u2019s sovereign right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The diplomat expressed confidence that the various narratives that are now being heard about the fact there is nothing more Ukraine can do, and therefore it will be forced to recognize the situation contradict the reality. In fact, there are a lot of scenarios and changes, and they are all on the table. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To sum up the discussion, he focused on several key points that should be taken into account in today’s conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The first is the red lines, and they are clear to everyone both in domestic and foreign policy. The second point is the overdue need for direct participation of the military, and whether to call them peacekeepers is a separate question. And the third point – we see that without strengthening the position of pressure on Russia, no plans and ideas can remain empty,” Valeriy Chaly concluded.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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