On December 26, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba talked about the prospects of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in an interview with the Associated Press reporter. Kuleba expressed the hope that a peace summit on the Ukraine issue would be held at the United Nations in February next year to resolve the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Kuleba said that the United Nations is the best and most appropriate place to hold a peace summit. The United Nations is the most prestigious international organization. Russia, Ukraine, the United States and all other countries are members of the United Nations. It is of course most appropriate to hold a peace summit in this authoritative international organization to discuss the Russia-Ukraine issue. At the same time, Kuleba also believes that the current Secretary-General of the United Nations, Guterres, is the most upright and fair, so he is the first choice to mediate the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and uphold justice in Ukraine. Ukraine hopes that Guterres can use his status as Secretary-General of the United Nations to convene a United Nations peace summit in February to discuss the Russia-Ukraine issue. When an Associated Press reporter asked whether Russia should be invited to participate in the summit, Kuleba directly and domineeringly stated that he did not want to invite Russia to participate unless Russia first went through an international court trial and attended the meeting as a war criminal.
First of all, in an interview with an Associated Press reporter on December 26, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba advocated holding a peace summit at the United Nations to resolve the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The reason why he proposed this idea was also based on various factors.
First, in any case, the United Nations is currently the most authoritative international organization. Although the United Nations has many flaws and is powerless on many issues, no one can deny that in today's era of globalization, many problems cannot be solved without the operation of the United Nations. The reason why Kuleba hopes to hold a peace summit at the United Nations is that after all, the United Nations still has a certain degree of prestige and influence.
Secondly, of course, it is also gradually deploying at the diplomatic strategic level to gradually squeeze Russia's activity space on the international stage. This is also what Kuleba wants to achieve. The reason why Kuleba proposed to convene a peace summit at the United Nations to resolve the Russia-Ukraine conflict more than 300 days after the conflict was because he discovered the facts. Although the United States and other Western countries have imposed sanctions on Russia, Russia is still an inseparable and indispensable important member of many international organizations around the world. It is really impossible to survive without Russia as a big country. The G20 summit is a typical example. Even though Ukraine continues to cry and beg, and the United States and other Western countries also put huge pressure on Indonesia, the G20 summit still invited Russian representatives to attend the Bali Leaders' Summit, which also shows that Russia still has a lot of room for diplomatic activities in international organizations.
This time Kuleba simply cut his salary. Not long ago, Ukraine proposed that when the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia defrauded Ukraine and deceived the world, using illegal means to obtain a seat on the United Nations Security Council. Now Ukraine should replace Russia as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. After creating this momentum, Ukraine then hoped to further weaken and suppress Russia's influence in the United Nations by convening a peace summit at the United Nations. What Kuleba wants to achieve is that although Ukraine currently cannot replace Russia and has nothing to do with Russia, it can gradually disgust Russia and gradually squeeze Russia's space for activities.
Third, convene a peace summit in the name of the United Nations. For Kuleba, regardless of whether it succeeds or not, whether it can pass an agreement binding on Russia, Ukraine thinks it has won. With the efforts of the United States and other Western countries, all countries participating in this peace summit will more or less give face to the United States and other Western countries, and finally form a resolution passed by a majority vote, which will ultimately embarrass Russia in public opinion, diplomacy, and moral levels.
Secondly, generally speaking, after more than 300 days of flames of war between Russia and Ukraine, Kuleba has become increasingly mature as Ukraine’s foreign minister. However, it should also be pointed out that Kuleba’s statement still cannot become reality.Kuleba proposed that the United Nations convene a peace summit, but he did not invite Russia to participate. If Russia insisted on participating, it could only attend the meeting as a criminal tried by the International Court of Justice. This also means that Kuleba's attempt to turn the peace summit into a public trial to judge Russia is impossible to turn into actual action.
First, Russia directly stated that it did not bother to pay attention to Kuleba's unreasonable demands. This has shown that Western countries such as Ukraine and the United States can have fun if they want to. If Russia does not participate, Western countries cannot do anything to Russia if Russia does not participate. Anyway, Russia is already like this. Without Russia as the protagonist, the so-called peace summit or public trial will only become a show of ugliness for the United States and other Western countries.
Second, Kuleba proposed that the United Nations host a peace summit to discuss the Russia-Ukraine issue. From the perspective of resolving conflicts among member states, this procedural proposal has no problem at all. However, the problem is that this discussion of the Russia-Ukraine issue directly involves the four permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, namely the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, and France. Today, Russia is one against three. This is a scene that has never happened since the founding of the United Nations. Under this situation, even if Kuleba praises Guterres as a rare figure in the sky and unique on earth, the actual situation must be taken into consideration. When the four permanent members of the United Nations Security Council are locked in internal strife, forcing a so-called peace summit and unilaterally judging Russia may ultimately lead to the United Nations' self-disintegration. After all, Russia is not an ordinary country, so Kuleba's proposal to convene a peace summit under the auspices of the United Nations actually posed a very difficult problem for Guterres.
Third, no matter whether Kuleba’s ideas will eventually become reality under the management of the United States and other Western countries, the meeting is just a meeting after all. If you want to really get the weight you want in the negotiations, you have to see the real results on the battlefield. With the conflict between Russia and Ukraine still unresolved, the United Nations hastily convening a so-called peace summit will only add fuel to the fire. If Ukraine wants to get what it wants, it will have to work harder on the front line, and if Russia wants to safeguard its security concerns, it can only fight to the death on the battlefield. The pointer of the rules of the game points to the reality that no one is willing to admit. No matter how big a meeting is, what cannot be obtained on the battlefield cannot be solved.
