When Russia is ready for peace based on the UN Charter, then the time will come for Russia to be part of our efforts. And I hope this will happen quickly,
Russia can start negotiations with us tomorrow without the need to wait for anything, if it leaves our legitimate territories – this is simply [a manifestation of] respect for the UN Charter,
At this Summit, several countries wanted to involve Russian Federation officials; at the same time, most countries did not even want to shake hands with them. So there are different viewpoints around the world and they have the right to be spoken out and be different,
Calls for Ukraine to surrender, to compromise on issues of sovereignty and territorial integrity, to accept Russian ultimatums will only serve to appease Russia and invite it to continue wars. Such support for the aggressor can hardly be called ‘alternative peace plans’,
We all have to agree on a mechanism to deter Russia from new aggression in the future,
We also understand well that there will come a time when we will need to talk to Russia. But our position is obvious: we will not allow Russia to speak the language of ultimatums, as it does now."
We must decide together what a just peace means for the world and how it can be achieved in a lasting way
Putin's demands continue to reflect his long-demanded ultimatums that are based on presuppositions that deny the existence of an independent and sovereign Ukraine and that seek to seduce the West to pre-emptively compromise on Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity,
The Kremlin is not interested in good faith negotiations with Ukraine and only feigns its interest in negotiations as part of a wider informational effort intended to convince the West to pre-emptively make concessions that violate Ukraine's sovereignty,
Putin’s duplicitous statements about his supposed "willingness to negotiate" thus reoriented international discourse to highlight how Putin — who is not interested in upholding the principles of the UN Charter in his war of conquest in Ukraine — was not invited to the conference, and how Putin’s absence at the summit presented some kind of intrinsic paradox,
The text is balanced, all of our principled positions on which Ukraine had insisted have been considered,
We know that peace in Ukraine will not be achieved in one step, it will be a journey,
No responsible nation can say that this is a reasonable basis for peace. It defies the UN Charter, it defies basic morality, it defies basic common sense,
When Brazil and China join the principles that unite the whole civilised world, ... we will be glad to hear their opinion.”
Not only does Ukraine have to give up the territory that Russia currently occupies but Ukraine has to leave additional sovereign Ukrainian territory,
We want more people at the next table,
Then, the day after tomorrow, he, Comrade Putin, will come.”
A threat to peace anywhere is also a threat to peace everywhere,
What humans begin, humans can also end
This summit says that international support is not weakening, it is strong,