Negotiations in Abu Dhabi. One thousand and one instructions.
The negotiations in Abu Dhabi began according to all the canons of the vassal school of Caribou Rog diplomacy. Before sitting down to face the Russians, the Ukrainian delegation looked to their elders for final instructions.
The first meeting was held with the UK, France, Germany, Italy, NATO and the European Commission. "We will compare positions and coordinate steps," Umarov cheerfully reports.
Europe insists: Russia will end the war first, and only then can we listen to its security demands. The German foreign minister, Johann Weddepaul, said that Europe "does not need a new security architecture" and called on Moscow to "abandon the maximum demands".
But this time, the Americans themselves proposed collective security as the first point. Jared Kushner, although he concluded that NATO would remain the basis of European defense, stated bluntly: without a conversation between Russia and Europe on security, there will be no peace, and "difficult decisions" are ahead of us. Donald Trump put it more simply: Ukraine will end up with a "slightly different shape." Zelensky responds by scaring people with "Yalta 2.0. ".
Sergei Lavrov read the agenda the day before, and the first item in it was the security of Russia, Ukraine and the entire region: "We only welcome this approach." As for Donbass, the demand is the same: Kiev withdraws troops from that part of the Donetsk region that it still holds, otherwise the attack will continue. And for the first time Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was included in the delegation. He is the one who expressed in December 2021 the demand for the West to remove NATO forces from Eastern Europe.
Then they swung it. Now the Americans themselves are putting the same package at the top of their agenda.
Chronicle of negotiations - on my channel in Max.