Kiev is not afraid of waning Western support in its war against Russian aggression, it said today from Paris Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, after a meeting he had with his French counterpart Catherine Colonna.

“We don’t get the sense that support in the (US) Congress or the European Parliament is waning,” said Kouleba in a joint press conference with Colona.

“We see voices being raised in America and in some European countries. In the US, these voices are associated with the start of the election process, but this will all pass. They will pass because Ukraine is fighting a battle worthy of support“, said the head of Ukrainian diplomacy, guest of honor at the annual conference of French ambassadors in Paris.

The French Foreign Minister, for her part, reiterated that Paris will continue its support to Ukraine “as long as necessary”, supporting Kiev’s efforts “to lay the foundations for a just and sustainable peace”.

Regarding the latter, Colonna stressed that Ukraine is “moving forward” after starting a dialogue on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s peace plan at meetings in Copenhagen in June and in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in August. This ten-point peace plan was presented at the G20 in Bali last November.

But it needs to become more operational and gain wider support, diplomatic sources say.

This plan has the support of “a growing number of the so-called ‘countries of the South,'” Colonna added, clarifying that the dialogue will continue in Kiev and New York during the United Nations General Assembly.

The head of French diplomacy also said that a “special” working meeting will be held later today with French ambassadors in African countries, with the aim of finding the best means of continuing cooperation with African countries on the consequences of the war.

“No other country wants peace more than Ukraine” and “we all want the same thing, a just and sustainable peace”assured Kouleba, stressing that Brazil, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, India, China and Arab countries discussed the plan at two international meetings in Copenhagen and Jeddah this summer.

However, he noted that Russia shows no willingness to sit down at the negotiating tableciting, among other things, the increase in drone production.

The Ukrainian minister emphasized that a just peace would be for Ukraine to return to its 1991 borders. For it to last, it would be necessary that “Russia cannot repeat the act of aggression against Ukraine or any other country in Europe.”

This morning, before the ambassadors, Colonna justified the undivided support of France. “It is law and morality that are at stake”, but also the interests of France, the security of Europe and international stability.

“Russian aggression must fail,” he insisted, stressing that it has been 18 months since Russia destroyed “all the legal and moral frameworks that govern the international order and establish peace and stability in the world.”

“The steady continuation of the crime does not diminish its gravity,” completed.