Marco RubioSecretary of State of USAsaid Tuesday, February 18, from Saudi Arabia, that Washington will designate a “high -level team” to negotiate the end of the war between Russia and Ukraine.
“We are going to designate a high -level team of our part to help negotiate and carry out the work until the end of the conflict in Ukraine in a way that is lasting and acceptable for all parties involved,” Rubio said in statements from Riad at the end of meetings with a Russian delegation.
The head of the United States diplomacy assured that with his counterpart from Russia, Serguéi Lavrov, they agreed to “also start working at a high level to start discussing, thinking and examining geopolitical and economic cooperation that could result from a conflict end in Ukraine“.
“Obviously, we have to see that this conflict reaches a successful and lasting ending so that this is possible,” added Rubio, who indicated that both parties agreed that their respective teams “will work on all this” and will continue “involved in this process” to guarantee “that progresses in a productive way.”
On the negotiation process, Rubio assured that he must lead to “A permanent end of war and not to a temporary end”while sliding that “the practical reality is that there will be some debate on the territory and there will be a debate on security guarantees.”
He also recalled that the US president, Donald Trumpsaid “his desire, his determination” to end war and “to the massacre that is happening” from the beginning in 2022 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, where in Rubio’s words There are “fields and extermination in the east and south that are unacceptable.”
“President Trump has changed the entire global conversation of NO if the guerra It will end, but how it will end. And only President Trump can do that, “he said.
The negotiations in Riad extended for about four and a half hours and were Integrated, by the Russian part, by Yuri Ushakov, Kremlin advisor; Russian Foreign Minister Serguéi Lavrov, and the Director of the Direct Investment Fund, Kiril Dmítriev.
Meanwhile, the US delegation was represented by Rubiothe National Security Advisor Mike Waltzand the American special envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff.
This is the first meeting between a Russian Foreign Minister and a US Secretary of State since the one held in January 2022, one month before the start of the war, between Lavrov and his counterpart Antony Blinken.
The Ukrainian President, Volodímir ZelenskiHe said he will not accept any agreement on his country outside kyiv and backs of his European allies.
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