ABOUT readiness of Turkey to become one of the countries – guarantors of Ukraine’s security, said on March 31, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
“We can be one of the guarantor countries in terms of ensuring the security of Ukraine,” he said.
Turkey is counting on this “in principle”, but there are details that should be clarified, Erdogan said.
At the same time, Cavusoglu noted that the allegations that if Turkey is included in the number of countries guarantors of Ukraine’s security, Ankara will immediately enter the war and send troops are incorrect.
War of Russia against Ukraine. The main thing (updated)
On March 29, Istanbul hosted the fourth face-to-face round negotiations between Ukraine and the Russian Federation (the delegations met several times in video format) on ending the war that began after the Russian invasion on February 24.
On the eve of the talks in Istanbul, the head of the Ukrainian delegation, chairman of the Servant of the People faction in the Verkhovna Rada, David Arakhamia, said in a Financial Times commentary that the Russian Federation demands that Ukraine recognize Russia’s control over the occupied Crimean peninsula. He added that Ukraine “never recognizes any borders”other than those internationally recognized.
Following the meeting of the delegations of the two countries, Arakhamia stated that Ukraine formally offered to sign the contract on international security guarantees.
According to him, this agreement should provide for legally binding security guarantees, as well as obligations from the United States, Great Britain, France, China, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Canada and Israel to provide military assistance to Kiev in case of aggression against Ukraine. Russia, Arakhamia said, should also provide security guarantees to Ukraine, but “on different terms.”
Readiness to provide security guarantees was then declared USA, Italy And Germany. UK Representative to the UN Barbara Woodward agreedthat London is ready to “play its role” in providing security guarantees for Ukraine. At the same time, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Dominic Raab elaborated: not like in NATO.
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