The meeting between the US and Russia Foreign Ministers in Saudi Arabia will pave the possible peace negotiations in Ukraine. Ukraine is not at the meeting.
Saudi Arabia offers the arena today on Tuesday for discussions between the US and Russian Foreign Ministers, which will pave the possible Ukrainian peace talks and the end of the offensive war in Russia.
The meeting is also on display Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin Meeting in the near future.
The US and Russian Foreign Ministers had last met almost two years ago. Then Lavrov and the then US Foreign Minister Antony Blinken met with the G20 meeting ten minutes. However, the encounter did not lead to significant steps to end the Ukrainian war.
Prior to this, the foreign ministers last met before Russia’s attack in Ukraine in early 2022.
The meeting in Saudi Arabia speaks of a full translation in the US attitude towards Russia, which it has sought to isolates throughout Russia during the offensive war in Ukraine.
The United States is represented at the meeting of the Foreign Minister Marco Rubio.
Rubio met Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Israel on Sunday. Rubion is due to discuss Saudi Arabia with the country’s leadership also US President Donald Trump Gazan plan.
Also the White House Security Policy Advisor Mike Waltzin and the Middle East Advisor Steve Witkoffin is to attend the meeting. Waltz commented in early February that Europeans must take care of the stability of Ukraine after the war.
Instead of Ukraine’s Ambassador of Ukraine Keith Kellogg does not attend the meeting.
From Russia, the long -term Foreign Minister attends the meeting Sergei Lavrov and president Vladimir Putin foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov.
At least the first primer of peace talks, the United States and Russia, both over the head of Europe and Ukraine. Lavrov said on Monday that Europeans have nothing to do with the negotiations because “they are trying to continue war.”
According to Ushakov, the Russian delegation came to negotiate only with US representatives.
At the meeting, the situation in Ukraine is scrambled, but the Ukrainian government has not been invited to advise in Riyadh, even though the president Volodymyr Zelenskyi So in the area. However, he is expected to visit Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.
US president Donald Trump On Sunday, the journalists said that Ukraine plays a role in the conclusion of a peace treaty.
follows the meeting here.
AP, Reuters