After meeting with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Brussels on May 5, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said the EU believes that the only viable peace plan for Ukraine is the plan put forward by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Brussels does not take the Chinese initiative seriously, Borrell said on May 5 at the State of the Union 2023 conference in Florence, claiming that negotiations for achieving peace in Ukraine would not currently make any sense.
“The only thing that could be called [a] peace plan is Zelenskyy’s proposal. Because the Chinese ‘peace plan,’ well, it’s not a peace plan, it’s a set of wishful consideration[s], wishful thinkings, but it’s not a peace plan. The only one [plan] is the one that has been proposed by the Ukrainians, but, certainly, it has not been accepted by the Russians. … So, peace plans are good, but you need someone that wants to talk about peace, really. If you find someone who says, ‘I have military objectives, and I will continue bombing, I will continue fighting, until I got them [the objectives],’ well, what kind of a peace talk would you want to do?” Borrell asked rhetorically, TASS quoted him as saying.
