Zelensky said national security advisers from coalition countries will meet in Kyiv on Saturday to finalise technical elements of the plan, with their proposals to be endorsed at high-level talks in Paris.
Advisers are due to meet again on January 7 before further steps are set out toward a broader meeting involving European and US leaders.
The Ukrainian president said the aim is to move toward talks that would include US President Donald Trump.
Zelensky met with Trump on Sunday in Florida, where both presidents spoke of progress on a 20-point peace proposal and on finalising arrangements for security guarantees for Ukraine.
The comments come as European leaders signal that a diplomatic breakthrough may be approaching.
Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday that peace in neighbouring Ukraine could be near, citing what he described as the first phase of serious negotiations involving Ukraine, Europe, the United States and Canada.
"Peace is on the horizon," Tusk said, adding that a deal could be reached within weeks rather than months, based on US declarations that Washington would provide security guarantees to Ukraine after a settlement.
US officials have said such guarantees could include troop deployments along a border or contact line.
Tusk also said that any peace agreement would likely require Ukrainian compromises on territory and could ultimately require a referendum in Ukraine.
He warned that the West and Kyiv risk losing to Russia if Moscow succeeds in dividing its opponents and imposing the terms of a settlement.
Following Trump’s meeting with Zelensky, both leaders said progress had been made toward ending the nearly four-year war.
Zelensky said the sides had agreed on US security guarantees, while Trump said those guarantees were about 95 percent settled, with several issues still unresolved, including the future of Ukrainian-held territory in the eastern Donbas region.
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Source: IAR, PAP