Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's chief of staff said that Ukraine is to start consultations with the United States this week on providing security guarantees for Kyiv pending the completion of the process of joining Nato. Andriy Yermak said that officials from a number of countries were preparing to meet in Saudi Arabia to discuss Zelenskyy's peace plan for Ukraine, based on the departure of all Russian troops The Wall Street Journal first reported on the meeting in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, saying it would be held in Jeddah on August 5-6.
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00:00 Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky's chief of staff said that Ukraine is to start consultations
00:08 with the United States this week on providing security guarantees for Kyiv pending the completion
00:13 of the process of joining NATO.
00:15 Andrei Yermak said that the officials from a number of countries were preparing to meet
00:19 in Saudi Arabia to discuss Zelensky's peace plan for Ukraine based on the departure of
00:24 all Russian troops.
00:26 The Wall Street Journal first reported on the meeting in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, saying
00:30 that it would be held in Jeddah on August 5-6.
00:34 The talks on security guarantees with the United States are a follow-up on pledges issued
00:37 by the Group of Seven or G7 at the NATO summit in Lithuania earlier this month to draw up
00:43 and honour security guarantees.
00:44 Yermak said that the guarantees will be in effect until Ukraine secures NATO membership.
00:50 The Western Alliance's Vilnius summit offered support to Ukraine in countering Russia's
00:54 17-month-old invasion and individual countries pledged new weapons, but no date for Ukrainian
01:01 membership was set as long as the war continues.
01:05 Members of the G7 agreed to each nation to negotiate agreements to provide security guarantees
01:10 and help Ukraine bolster its military.
01:13 In his comments, Yermak said that more than 10 countries had joined the G7 declaration
01:18 and Ukraine was negotiating terms of future guarantees with each of them.
01:23 Yermak spoke of the forthcoming meeting in Saudi Arabia at a gathering of regional officials
01:28 in the western Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk.
01:32 He said that an initial international meeting devoted to the peace plan took place in Copenhagen
01:37 in June.
01:38 In addition to calling for the withdrawal of Russian troops, Zelensky's peace plan
01:42 also provides for the restoration of Ukraine's pre-war borders and the return home of all
01:47 prisoners and deported children.
01:49 Russia and Ukraine held a series of peace talks soon after Russia's invasion in February
01:54 in last year, but these failed to produce any agreement.
01:58 Ukraine, its military now bolstered by Western arms, now says that it will not take part
02:03 in any further talks until Russian troops leave.
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