More and more details about exactly what exactly will be discussed, the meeting program – and participants are known as the time is approaching the most critical diplomatic moment of its war.
Closed ‘meeting’ and then expanded
The first details of what is expected came from the Kremlin, but also from references to Russian media. As it emerged in Alaska there will be a series of contacts between the two sides. US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will first meet their two presence of translators, in a closed personal discussion, followed by an expanded meeting with people from their staffs and will have a … breakfast work.
As Yuri Usakov, Kremlin’s foreign policy adviser, said in his announcements, the central issue of discussion between presidents will be Ukraine, but issues of trade and economic cooperation will also be discussed.
On the part of Russia to the delegation to the delegation with President Putin in Alaska will be attended by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Defense Minister Andrei Belosov, Finance Minister Andon Siluanov and Russian State Chief Rim.
Much later, it was announced by the US government that in the talks, in addition to Donald Trump, the US Vice President Jay D. Vans, Foreign Minister Marko Rubio, Finance Minister Scott Besed and Skottu Bestetou, will be involved in the talks.
Trump and Putin are preparing feverishly
According to reports in Russian media, President Vladimir Putin had a meeting with some of the country’s top officials at noon to prepare for a meeting with Trump.
As Reuters reports after the meeting, Putin said the US government is making “honest efforts” to resolve the conflict in Ukraine.
The Russian president is also alleged to have implied that Moscow and Washington could reach an agreement to control the nuclear weapons that could boost peace.
The Kremlin, through the mouth of Dimitri Peskov’s spokesman, however That there are no specific plans to sign documents as a result of the summit and warned that it would be a “big mistake” to predict the outcome of the talks, the Reuters.
For his part, the US president, in statements he made in the US media, reiterated that He is primarily interested in “immediate peace agreement” and, if there is progress in this matter in his meeting with Putin, he will immediately call to the Zelenski to “bring him where we are going to meet”.
According to Trump, he estimates that the Russian president wants to “end it” tomorrow at the summit, but he said, he gives a 25% the meeting to end up in failure. As he pointed out, he is “a chess game” and if a second meeting with Zelenski does not arise to sign an agreement “to get and give the border and territory” the meeting will not be a success. In this case he argued ‘that I will not call anyone, I will go home to I rule the country, we have made America great again in six months. ”
It is noted that the US president has made it clear that if there is no progress in a peacekeeping agreement, Russia will suffer “heavy consequences”
Intervention
Giving a more specific tone for negotiations in Alaska, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said security guarantees for Ukraine should be part of the peace talks with Russia. As he argued, he hopes for immediate progress towards ending the war.
According to the US Foreign Minister, ‘to achieve peace, I think we all recognize that there should be some discussion of security guarantees as you should There is some discussion about … territorial differences and claims, and what they are fighting. “
Regarding a future truce, Marco Rubio said that “we will see what is possible tomorrow. Let’s see how talks will go. And let’s be optimistic.
The past
Most of the members of the Russian delegation are not unknown on the American side. For example, it was known that it was announced that Syril Dimitriyev had worked closely in previous talks with Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkov on issues related to the two countries’ economic cooperation.
Similarly, it is recalled that a similar meeting between members of the delegations had also been held in Riyadh with the participation of US Foreign Minister Mark Rubio.
