Washington (AP) – Vice President JD Vance declared Wednesday that Russia is “asking too much” in its initial peace offer, while the United States seeks to end the war in Ukraine.
The vice president, speaking at a meeting in Washington organized by the Munich Security Conference, did not detail the terms of Moscow, but said he was not pessimistic about the possibility of a peace agreement.
It is a more optimistic evaluation than the recent skepticism of President Donald Trump about the desire of Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war.
“I would not say that Russians are not interested in solving this,” said Vance. “What I would say is that at this time the Russians are asking for a certain set of requirements, a certain set of concessions to end the conflict. We believe they are asking too much,” he said.
Vance did not repeat any of the criticism of Volodymyr Zelenskyy that he had expressed during an altercation in the Oval office in February with the Ukrainian leader, and stressed that the United States appreciated the disposition of Ukraine to have a high fire of 30 days. But the Republican Vice President, citing Russia’s lack of disposition at that point, said that the United States would like to overcome that and make Russian and Ukrainian leaders feel directly to negotiate a long -term agreement that ends the fighting.
“What the Russians have said is: ‘A High 30 -day fire is not in our strategic interests.’
Vance’s talk at the Conference event followed his appearance at the organization’s summit in February in Germany, where he caused a stir for his comments that freedom of expression is “in recoil” throughout Europe. Vance addressed that on Wednesday and said his comments applied to the United States under the administration of Democratic President Joe Biden, as well as Europe.
“It is not ‘bad Europe, the United States good.
On the Middle East, Vance did not clarify the moment of the conversations planned between the United States and Iran about Iran’s nuclear program. He said that the Trump administration considered that the inspection and compliance provisions in the 2015 Iran Nuclear Agreement, negotiated under Democratic President Barack Obama, were “incredibly weak” and “allowed them to remain in this path to a nuclear weapon if they activated the switch and pressed the button.”
“We believe that there is an agreement here that would reintegrate Iran in the global economy, which would be really good for the Iranian people, but that would result in the complete cessation of any possibility that they can obtain a nuclear weapon. And towards that we are negotiating,” said Vance.
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This story was translated from English by an AP editor with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool.
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