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Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak held the second meeting of the working group № 9 aimed at the implementation of the ninth clause of the Ukrainian Peace Formula “Preventing escalation and repetition of aggression”.
“Clause nine of the Peace Formula is about preventing the escalation of war and the repetition of aggression. This is much broader than security commitments. We want our Formula to become global: to give any other country the opportunity to use our experience, learn from our lessons, use our tools and ready-made solutions,” emphasized Yermak.
Yermak noted that the number of participants had more than doubled since the inaugural meeting of the working group. The second meeting was attended by ambassadors and diplomatic representatives of 43 countries, including the Global South states this time.
The working group on the ninth point of the Peace Formula has been joined by: Australia, Austria, Argentina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Greece, Georgia, Denmark, Estonia, Israel, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Canada, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, the Netherlands, Germany, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, the USA, Türkiye, Finland, France, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Montenegro, Chile, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan and the European Union. In addition, some foreign and Ukrainianian experts have been involved as well.
Ihor Zhovkva, Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, explained that the activities of this group could go far beyond the issue of Ukrainian security.
“Today, there is not a single country in the world that has not been affected by the Russian war. Everyone feels its negative consequences. That is why we have come together in such a representative quantity around the key point of the Ukrainian Peace Formula, which aims not only to speed up Ukraine’s victory and end the war, but also to prevent similar aggressions from happening in the future anywhere else in the world,” said Ihor Zhovkva.
The peace formula, which consists of 10 points, was presented by Volodymyr Zelenskyy last year in November. The Global Peace Summit might take place in February 2024, according to Zhovkva.
