Berlin Conference on Reconstruction, G7 Summit and Summit on Peace for Ukraine, - these three events have clearly demonstrated our unity, - this was the message voiced by Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Chairman of the Kyiv Security Forum, Prime Minister of Ukraine in 2014-2016, at the special event of the KSF with G7 Ambassadors to Ukraine on June 19.
The Conference on Reconstruction, held in Berlin, according to the KSF Chairman, became an event akin to economic Ramstein, “with discussions centered on how to protect Ukraine, and how to assist Ukraine, first and foremost, militarily, by supplying anti-missile defences”.
Summit on Peace, Mr. Yatsenyuk emphasized, “has demonstrated unity of all our allies, and Ukraine re-emerged on the front pages of major global media”.
The third event, that the KSF is dedicated to, is the G7 Summit. Arseniy Yatsenyuk stressed that the G7 “has made it crystal clear to putin that no one was going to let go his arrested assets”.
An important decision was made to direct $50 billion of windfall tax (revenues from the frozen Russian assets) to Ukraine.
“The G7 said to putin: we stand ready to keep your money under lock and key for dozens of years. It takes at least 10 years to accumulate 50 billion. We shall not step back from Ukraine, we shall support Ukraine not only for as long as we can, but for as long as it takes for Ukraine to win”, - he emphasized.
The fourth event of importance is the NATO Summit in Washington, D.C., said the KSF Chairman.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk reminded the audience that from its very inception back in 2007, the Kyiv Security Forum repeatedly voiced its key motto – Ukraine must become the NATO member: “I can only repeat this message again today. There is no other alternative for a secure and free Ukraine but to become the NATO member state”.
“We understand full well all current issues, including the ones among NATO allies. Still, we remain certain that the Western world unity should also be demonstrated by taking correct decisions. In the modern world, moving from one challenge to another, we find ourselves too far, alas, from a comprehensive peace, the one that we all attained after the end of the World War Two”, - Mr. Yatsenyuk said.