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to the EU due to 11 bilateral issues regarding national minorities. At the same time, Moldova also suffers since the EU is considering the issue of the accession of both states simultaneously.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. President Joe Biden will sign a security cooperation agreement before the Global Peace Summit that will be held in Switzerland on June 15-16.
Ukraine, Sweden sign long-term security agreement. President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Stockholm earlier in the day for the third Nordic-Ukrainian summit where he met Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson.
Ukraine, Norway sign long-term security agreement. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere signed a bilateral security agreement between the two countries in Stockholm on May 31.
China responds to Zelensky's accusation of interference in global peace summit. China has never "fanned fire or fueled the flames" of Russia's full-scale war in Ukraine, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning.
China refuses to attend the Peace Summit in Switzerland because 3 reasons:
1) Russia is not invited;
2) Not all parties are treated equally;
3) Other peace proposals (including the Chinese one) are also not discussed.
Czechia launches pilot project for voluntary return of Ukrainian refugees. The Czech government launched a pilot project to help Ukrainian refugees return home if they wish to do so, Radio Prague International reported on June 2.
Zelenskiy on initiative of China, Brazil to hold conference on establishing peace in Ukraine with Russia: No one has right to tell us how this war should end Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that neither China nor Brazil are fully aware of what Russia brought with its war to the territory of Ukraine, and accordingly, none of them has the right to tell Ukraine how the war should end.
China claims that the international community supports its peace plan for Ukraine. More than two dozen countries have allegedly expressed their support for the terms presented in China's alternative peace plan, said Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi.
Twelve European countries insist on starting negotiations on Ukraine and Moldova’s accession to the EU in June. 12 EU member states issued a joint appeal to quicken the process of Ukraine and Moldova's accession to the EU and to formally begin membership negotiations by the end of June. The letter sent to the Belgian Foreign Ministry was signed by the foreign ministers of the Czech Republic, Sweden, Estonia, Finland, Portugal, Latvia, Poland, Lithuania, Germany, Slovenia, Romania and Slovakia. "We jointly call for the General Affairs Council to adopt the negotiating framework for Ukraine and Moldova no later than June to convene intergovernmental conferences with both countries by the end of this month," the ministers wrote. Belgium, which
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