At Security Council Meeting on Ukraine, Kyiv's Envoy Says Zelensky Is Ready to Meet Putin Anywhere but Moscow; Russia's Envoy Rejects Freezing the Conflict

NEW YORK — Ukraine's ambassador to the United Nations, Andriy Melnyk, told a Security Council meeting on Ukraine on November 9 that without a summit at the highest level, a political breakthrough is hardly within reach, and that President Volodymyr Zelensky stands ready to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin at the earliest occasion.

Melnyk said such a meeting could take place in Florida in December, on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit, or in any other place in the world if need be, 'even in Antarctica — anywhere, but not in Moscow.' He said Ukraine remains fully committed to the pursuit of peace and that the parties will see what emerges from the trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi on November 10 and 11.

Russia's ambassador, Vasily Nebenzia, told the same meeting that no schemes aimed at freezing the conflict are agreeable to Russia. He said any settlement must be comprehensive, durable and long-term and must address what Moscow calls the root causes of the war, which Russia lists as strategic threats from the West, the rights of Russian and Russian-speaking people in Ukraine, and the spread of neo-Nazi ideology. He said Zelensky's proposals amount to freezing the conflict along the line of contact to give Kyiv a respite to rearm.

The meeting opened with Kayoko Gotoh, a senior official of the UN Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations, telling the Council that millions of Ukrainian civilians remain under constant fire as Russian forces intensify attacks on population centers and civilian infrastructure. GSM has separately reported the British ambassador's remarks at the same meeting; this story covers the Ukrainian and Russian ambassadors' statements.

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(Source: United Nations)

Source: United Nations

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