German Foreign Minister Johan Wadwoll said today, Monday (11/24/2025), that during the negotiations that took place on Sunday in Geneva between European and American representatives, all points of Washington’s peace plan in Ukraine related to the European Union and NATO were deleted, which he described as a great success.
“All issues affecting Europe and NATO have been removed from this plan,” he said in an interview with the radio station on Monday. “It is a decisive success that we achieved yesterday.” Deutschlandfunk.
“We have taken the first step and protected European interests,” he stressed, adding that the second step is for the European Union, as Ukraine’s “advocate,” to be able to protect this country’s sovereignty, which means that Kiev can decide what concessions to make within the framework of a peace agreement.
Wadfall expressed his expectation that the US administration would now maintain its contacts with the Russians and present to them the amended peace proposal, and expressed his hope that neither party would hinder reaching an agreement.
In response to a question about the details of the plan, specifically regarding the territorial transfer that will be requested from Ukraine, he admitted that this is one of the most “problematic” points and reiterated the European position that “the current front is the starting point of the negotiations, although it is not the final point.”
He pointed out that “there may be changes,” referring to the possibility of Kiev agreeing to withdraw from the areas it still controls in Donbass, as Moscow demands, but this matter must be decided by the Ukrainians in any case.
In this sense, Wadfall stressed that the priority is not to reach a ceasefire as quickly as possible, but to reach an agreement that both parties can tolerate and maintain, and noted that land transfers are difficult for Ukraine, because they will be subject to “severe criticism” by the affected population.
In response to a question about the security guarantees that will be provided to Ukraine, he said that obtaining clear guarantees from the United States is a “very positive” aspect. It was already included in the first draft, which implied that Russia was “clearly prepared to accept it.”
However, the Minister admitted that there is no concrete agreement on the safeguards aspect, although the EU wants these guarantees to be equivalent to the mutual protection provided by NATO countries, and to be “at least” as good as the guarantees provided through the Budapest Memorandum, when Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons.
CP (efe, rtr)