Ukraine’s allies will focus on the US-drafted peace plan on the sidelines of the G20 summit right now amid alarm over the proposals, that are broadly seen as favoring Russia, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer stated.
“Ukraine’s friends and partners will meet in the margins of the G20 summit to discuss how we can secure a full ceasefire and create the space for meaningful peace negotiations,” Starmer stated in an announcement launched by the UK authorities forward of the talks.
We’ll deliver you any important developments from these conferences once we get them.
President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, stated on X that she sat down for talks with Starmer forward of the summit.
“The situation regarding Ukraine right now a clear reminder of why that matters,” von der Leyen stated.
For context: The summit, which is being held right now and Sunday, marks the primary happening in Africa. It shall be attended by leaders together with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva however the US shall be absent.
Trump wrote in a social media submit on Friday that the US would boycott the occasion because of South African “human rights abuses” in opposition to Afrikaners, an ethnic group descended largely from Dutch settlers, in addition to German, French and British immigrants to South Africa, claims strongly disputed by the South African authorities.