By Julia Payne
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Group of Seven nations, EU leaders Ursula von der Leyen and Antonio Costa, and other European leaders were discussing Washington’s proposed peace plan for Ukraine on Saturday afternoon on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Johannesburg, sources familiar with the matter said.
The E3, an informal security alliance of France, Britain and Germany, met ahead of the wider discussion.
The attendees included Finland, Norway, Spain and the Netherlands, one of the sources specified.
The United States and Russia are negotiating a 28-point road map to end Russia’s war in Ukraine but Brussels has not been included in the negotiations. European Commission president Von der Leyen said on Friday she would reach out to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
Zelenskiy said he was ready for “constructive, honest and prompt work” with Washington.
Rustem Umerov, Secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defence Council, said on Saturday that Kyiv was holding consultations in Switzerland with the U.S. on ending the war.
(Reporting by Julia Payne; Editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise and Kevin Liffey)
