U.S., European Leaders Discuss Security Guarantees, Cease-Fire for Russia-Ukraine War

Welcome again to world brief, where we look at it Ukrainian and European The Great White House leaders meeting, melting relations between India and ChinaAnd deadly floods in Pakistan.

Conditions of peace

Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinski-who was delivered by an extraordinary delegation from seven European leaders-went to the White House on Monday to discuss possible peace conditions with US President Donald Trump, after Trump’s meeting in Alaska last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “We need to stop this war, stop Russia, and we need support from American and European partners,” said Zellinski, along with Trump at the Oval Office. Zelinski later called on Monday meetings “Building” and “Big Unit” on the table.

Several noticeable conditions for ending the war that lasted for years were discussed. Among them, all the nine leaders present stressed the importance of holding a triple summit with Zelinski, Trump and Putin, although French President Emmanuel Macron added that a quadruple meeting also included Europeans would be necessary as follow -up. Trump suggested that a triple meeting could happen next week or so, although Moscow has not publicly agreed on this coordination.

Trump also expressed openness to providing Ukraine with the possibility of American security guarantees as part of a final peace agreement – a large demand from Kyiv and its European partners, who have argued that this protection is necessary to ensure a permanent peace within Ukraine and in Europe as a whole. Trump said that Putin agreed during their summit in Alaska last week to allow Ukraine some security guarantees.

It is not clear how these guarantees may look; However, many European leaders referred to them in the name of “Article 5” elegantly (referring to the mutual defense item in NATO), and Macron stressed that they should allow “reliable Ukrainian army for years and coming decades” and exchanged a fair defense burden between the United States and Europe. When asked if he was ready to send our forces to help provide security to Ukraine, Trump did not rule out that.

But in a statement on Monday, Moscow strongly condemned the idea of NATO forces in Ukraine. “We reaffirm our website, which is declared repeatedly and repeatedly on our factional rejection of any scenarios that imagine its appearance in Ukraine from a military division with the participation of NATO countries,” and he mentioned a comment on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry. Putin called for Ukraine to give up all NATO membership aspirations, and even Trump recently suggested that Kiev should be ready to do this to end the war.

Such a privilege is just one of the many points of disagreement between Trump and the European team. Zelinski and his European allies still insist that the ceasefire should be secured first before peace talks. However, Putin insisted that negotiations can occur without a truce deal – and Trump appears to be convinced.

“I don’t think you need to stop the shooting,” Trump said on Monday. “I would like to stop [fighting]But strateically, this can be a defect on one side or another. “This defect is likely to be Russia, which won many victories of the battlefield in recent weeks and maintains control over nearly one -fifth of the Ukrainian lands.

Trump also suggested that Ukraine should waive some of the Russian -occupied lands, including the Crimea, to secure a deal, which has long rejected Zelinski.

However, the public parts of the historic summit focused on Monday largely on the areas of agreement instead of the remaining conflicts – a flagrantly different tone from the last White House meeting in Trump and Zellinski in February, during which Trump reprimanded the Ukrainian president for being unhelpful.

“Ultimately, this is a decision that President Zelinski can only take by the people of Ukraine, and they are also working in an agreement with President Putin,” Trump said on Monday, referring to a possible peace deal, “in reference to a possible peace deal. “I just think that good things will come from them.”

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The world this week

Tuesday, August 19: The Secretary -General of the United Nations António Guxres begins a five -day trip to Japan.

Thursday, August 21: Iranian President Masoud Bezishian concludes a four -day trip to Armenia.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio hosts Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand.

Friday, August 22: Colombian President Gustavo Petro hosts the leaders of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty as part of the group’s annual summit.

Saturday, August 23: A second summons elections were held for seven legislators in the opposition Kuomintang Party in Taiwan. Taiwan also holds a referendum on whether the second reactor of the nuclear factory in Manchan will be restarted.

Sunday, August 24: South Korean President Lee Jay Meong concludes a two -day visit to Tokyo, during which he will meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shigro Ishiba, before traveling to the United States for a summit with Trump.

Monday, August 25: Zambia hosts health ministers for the 75th session of the World Health Organization Regional Committee.

What we are following

The ties of Chinese Indian links. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi traveled to New Delhi on Monday and met the Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishhakar. The two discussed ongoing border disputes, strategies to reform global parties, and ways to enhance bilateral cooperation before the SCO Cooperation Summit in China at the end of this month.

The meeting clarifies the melting of the melting in the Chinese Indian with Washington’s private relationship with New Delhi, in the Salaj Trade War. This month, the White House doubled a 25 percent tariff for Indian goods as New Delhi continued to buy Russian oil. “India’s dependence on Russian crude is opportunism and deep erosion for the world’s efforts to isolate Putin’s war’s war,” said Peter Navarro, White House Trade Adviser in Beittarro. Financial times on monday. “If India wants to be treated as a strategic partner for the United States, it must start behaving like one.”

This may explain the reason that India has recently moved to China despite the regional powers that raise presidents in the past. It is worth noting that Jaishankar visited Beijing last month for the first time since 2020, it is expected that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the upcoming SCO summit as part of his first trip to China in seven years, and he will resume direct passengers between the two countries next month after a five -year stop.

The deadly floods in Pakistan. Search and rescue efforts were resumed in northern Pakistan on Monday, after days of destructive destroyed floods. Heavy and cloud rains began last Friday, with many northern regions, especially the Boner area in the Khyber Bakhtonguh Province. More than 300 people have been killed and at least 150 others missing, according to the NDMA.

Local officials said on Monday that the priority is now removing it, creating bridges, and providing humanitarian aid. Nearly 50 percent of the houses were destroyed in the village of Bishnoi District in Boner, and the rest is no longer valid for housing. But the time to do this may run out; Lieutenant -General Enam Haider Malik, President of NDMA, warned of other heavy rain talismans between August 21 and September 10.

Since late June, heavy rains, floods, and landslides have killed more than 600 people and have been hit by hundreds of others. Scientists suggest that global warming is responsible for the seasonal wind season in Pakistan.

Unprecedented flow. It seems that more than two decades of left -wing Bolivian policy are close to its end after the general elections indicated on Sunday to the increasing dissatisfaction with the current situation. Senator Rodrigo Baz and former right -wing president Jorge Kiruja won the largest number of votes on Sunday, with 32.8 percent and 26.4 percent of the votes, respectively. They will now go to the run -off – the first since its return to democracy in 1982 – on October 19.

Baz and Koirouga benefited from the economic crisis of Bolivia to strengthen their presidential campaigns and pushed the MAS Party of Socialism (MAS). The cost of living has increased in recent years, fuel scarcity remains rampant, and the national currency in Bolivia is free, and inflation rates have recently been recorded in 34 years.

This strategy seems successful. The favorite candidate for the left wing, Senate Speaker Andoniko Rodriguez, won only 8 percent of the votes, and the official candidate for MAS, Eduardo del Castillo, seized only 3.2 percent. “Bolivia not only calls for changing the government, but it also calls for a change in the political system,” Baz said.

Difficulties end

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