President Nicusor Dan said on Friday that any peace plan must have Ukraine's approval, and the international community that wants a rules-based order is willing to continue to defend this country.
The president was asked for his opinion on the peace plan proposed by the United States and the Russian Federation, which would offer Ukraine guarantees similar to NATO's Article 5.
"Any peace plan must be approved by the country in question, by Ukraine. So we are all looking at Ukraine now - all of us, meaning the international community that wants a rules-based international order, who are obviously willing to continue to defend Ukraine and implicitly both the security of Europe and the rules-based international order," the head of the state said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pleaded on Thursday for a "dignified peace," while the United States has circulated a draft plan, seen by AFP, which notably provides for Kyiv to relinquish the eastern regions of Donetsk and Lugansk to Russia, AFP comments.
According to the draft, these two regions claimed by Moscow, as well as the Crimean Peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014, would be "de facto recognized as Russian, including by the United States."
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