US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday after meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Riyadh that Washington is trying to be a fair and permanent solution to the war in Ukraine. Tuesday’s meeting was the first step of a long and challenging journey. According to him, the end of the war will require concessions from all sides. According to reports of AFP, AP and The Guardian, TASR reports this.
Rubio also confirmed that Europe will be part of the interviews of the end of almost three years of conflict. “There are other parties that have sanctions (against Russia), the European Union will have to be at some point at the table, because it also has sanctions“the US minister said. He also expressed the belief that Moscow is willing to participate in the” serious process “to end the war.
According to US diplomacy chief, it is necessary to understand that US President Donald Trump is the only leader to connect people to start talking about the end of the war. He also claims that all participants must agree with the agreement, writes The Guardian. According to Rubia, the aim is to end the war in a way that “will be righteous, permanent, sustainable and acceptable to all parties involved”.
Tammy Bruce, a spokeswoman for the US Department of Foreign Affairs, said in a statement that Rubio and Lavrov have agreed to “appoint the relevant high -level teams that will start working on a way to end the conflict in Ukraine as soon as possible”. Rubio also noted that “there are extraordinary opportunities for partnership” with Russia, the key to ending the conflict, writes AFP.
Trump’s National Security Adviser Mike Waltz also attended Tuesday’s negotiations, who said that negotiations on the end of the war will focus on the territory and security guarantees. “This must be a permanent end of the war and not temporary as we have seen in the past, ” declared Waltz after the end of the negotiations.
According to The Guardian Waltz, he also reiterated the call to create a “security guarantee under the European management” and an increase in defense spending in Europe. “The fact that a third of our NATO allies still do not contribute to defense at least two percent of their GDP ten years after we all have made this agreement together,” he said. The fact that Britain and other countries say that they would like to contribute to the security of Ukraine more significantly, according to Waltz, consider it a good cause.
To claim that Ukrainians and Europeans feel moved to the sideline in connection with the negotiations on the end of the war, he responded by saying that it is necessary to talk to both parties if you want to connect them. “And we will continue to remind everyone that literally in a few minutes after President Trump hung the phone (Russian) President (Vladimir) Putin, he called (A) spoke with (Ukrainian) president (Volodymyr),” he added. He also praised “shuttle diplomacy”, writes the British daily.
