Starmer turns to N Ireland peace broker in quest for US backstop in Ukraine

After Sir Kerr Starmer, the British Prime Minister, praised the “wonderful penetration” in talks between the United States and Ukraine, his allies rushed to highlight the main role played by Jonathan Powell, an engineer for the peace process in Northern Ireland.
The National Security Adviser at Downing Street – an old warrior in the era of Tony Blair – was published to help soften the discussions that have already collapsed completely.
P.The Chief of Staff of Blair, a decade ago, has been evacuated in the Whitehaoul circles of the role he played in peace in Northern Ireland: mysterious talks with the heroes of the solid line in Northern Ireland have led to the 1998 Friday Agreement.
Starmer-who hosts a video meeting of leaders of about twenty countries from a “coalition from the wish” moved on Saturday-to Powell to try to win American military support for the power guarantee of peace in Ukraine in Ukraine, an arduous task.

Powell has already raised dangerous weather miles and falsified many of his relationships, and crossed the Atlantic Ocean several times in recent months to meet Mike Walz and other big personalities in the Trump administration.
Powell traveled at the end of last week to Kiev to meet Ukrainian President Voludmir Zelinsky and his chief of staff Andrei Yermak to work on a written proposal to fill the gap between Ukraine and the United States.
British officials said the talks focused on a ceasefire, and to build confidence -building, including the exchange of war prisoners, the release of civilians detained and the return of children.
Ukraine also agreed to sign mineral dealings with the United States, and Zelinski bent on the knee to Trump, and thanked the United States for its support and embrace the peace plan in Washington, which British officials recognize as the “only game in the city.”
On Friday, Powell will fly again to Washington to try to persuade Waltz that the Trump administration should play a “Backstop” security role to ensure permanent peace in Ukraine.
The aim of this is to stop the shooting in the negotiations that were organized and eventually the British and French forces between the international forces that help ensure peace in strategic locations away from the disputed lands.
Powell will speak through the plan with its European counterparts and Waltz on Friday.
Similar talks in Washington earlier this month between UK Defense Secretary John Healy and the United States, Higseth House ended without any agreement.
Without US intelligence, monitoring and air cover, Starmer warned that European power in Ukraine will not be able to deter Putin Putin from “Come Gone”. However, Trump has not yet shown any sign of compulsion.
“It is a Cravshot.” One of the British officials. Another said: “It would be wrong to say that there was any movement at the top of the United States, but we are still talking.”
However, reaching this point was a diplomatic achievement. After the Zelinski Oval Office was placed with Trump at the end of last month, there was despair in London about peace prospects.
One of the UK officials said: “He stupidly entered into a trap,” noting that Zelinski has failed to obtain British and French advice to use gratitude and compliment to beat Trump. French President Emmanuel Macron and will continue these tactics in more successful meetings with Trump earlier in the week.
Since that confrontation Powell – which established the Mediterranean Charity in 2011 to build on his experience in negotiating peace in Northern Ireland – Zelenskyy recommends how to repair damage.
Powell was in pain to tell colleagues that this is a common effort with his alleged counterparts from Germany and France, who will also meet in Waltz in Washington on Friday, but his experience is vital.

Powell, whose talent for self -deduction is a valuable diplomatic tool, illuminates the experience he brings to the job. “We managed the last time,” he told colleagues, noting that when work began in Blair in the 1990s, he was only 38 years old.
Powell traveled for the first time to Washington last December with Morgan Maksini, chief of staff of Sir Kerr Starmer, to hold talks with the Trump transitional team.
Last month, he returned to the US capital to discuss a set of issues with Waltz, including the proposed deal with Mauritius in the future of the Shaghus Islands, which have security effects of a joint military base between the United States and the United States on Diego Garcia.
Powell was the UK’s Prime Minister’s Prime Minister’s envoy on negotiations with Mauritius before he made Starmer the National Security Adviser.
His deal was widely criticized by the conservative opposition in Britain – but the criticism has calmed down after Trump publicly approved it in the Oval Office last month when he met Starmer.
The former political secretary of Blair John Machiran, who worked closely with Powell when the Downting Street Chief of Staff, recalled his pivotal role in the peace process in Northern Ireland and said he was “modest as effective.”
He added that “political intelligence” of a height, the spirit of humor, and his personal humility, along with his diplomatic experience is the reason that he caused this effect. . . So quickly. “
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2025-03-12 16:41:00