PoliticsWar Austria’s president publicly urges Putin to have interaction in critical peace negotiations. Tuesday, June 17, 2025

“I enchantment as soon as once more to these in energy within the Kremlin to finish this unlawful battle and begin critical, trustworthy negotiations. Mr. President Zelenskyy has assured us as soon as once more immediately that Ukraine is prepared for this,” Austrian President Alexander van der Bellen emphasised on June 16 in Vienna throughout a press convention with President Zelenskyy.

Van der Bellen added that the worldwide neighborhood throughout the UN has spoken “for a simply, complete and sustainable peace for Ukraine.” “However such a peace can’t come with out making an allowance for Ukraine’s safety pursuits,” the Austrian president added.

Zelenskyy, in flip, appealed to Austria’s neutrality by noting that neutrality failed to guard Ukraine from Russian assault. Van der Bellen acknowledged that, attributable to its neutrality, Austria has not critically undertaken the accountability to independently guarantee its personal protection for many years. The Ukrainian delegation signed a number of bilateral memoranda and paperwork with Austrian management concerning the safety and return of Ukrainian kids from Russia, cooperation within the subject of agriculture, the event of interregional and municipal cooperation, the event of cooperation between the Odesa area and the federal state of Higher Austria, in addition to cooperation in Ukraine’s reconstruction.