A chara, – Pana, the Peace and Neutrality Alliance, has called for a ceasefire and UN-chaired negotiations from the very start of the war in Ukraine.
We therefore welcome the statement from US president Biden that he would be willing to have talks with Russian president Putin and so help reduce escalating tensions between these nuclear powers.
His remarks were made at a recent press conference in Washington, during a bilateral summit with French president Emmanuel Macron.
This is a major foreign policy change with the Biden administration now expressing the need for diplomacy to end this horrific war.
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Let us encourage these moves and recall that President Kennedy in a speech on January 20th, 1961, said: " Let us never negotiate out of fear. But never fear to negotiate”, a political perspective that helped solve the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962. – Yours, etc,
ROGER COLE,
Chair,
Peace and
Neutrality Alliance,
Dalkey,
Co Dublin.