“I. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view.”
https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/President_Wilson%27s_Fourteen_Points
The Russians should be asked to type up a complete long-term peace proposal.
The Ukrainians should be asked to type up a complete long-term peace proposal.
If the Russians get everything they wanted, every Russian demand would be incorporated in the final deal, which would be made public.
If the Ukrainians get everything they wanted, every Ukrainian demand would be incorporated in the final deal, which would be made public.
There’s no legitimate reason for secrecy.
That’s an interesting point.
Keeping secrets to details of negotiations unfolding largely insulates them from the media. The media will grab details and run with them and extrapolate their perception of consequences to each individual item and generate pressures from the various factions around the world who might oppose some particular detail and apply pressure to the various sides during the negotiation process.
The result of this would be that the two sides negotiating suddenly become more than two. The pressures brought from multiple different directions on to these specific two sides disrupt the whole process.
You would have two foreign ministers whose job it is to represent their presidents hearing these pressures from other sources and trying to guess what the impact will be on their presidents during the process itself.
The secrecy does make a bit of sense.
Excellent idea...sealed envelopes and opened in front of Trump.