US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the second left, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al -Saud, Saudi National Security Adviser Moussad bin Mohammed Al -Aiban, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Yuri, Yuri. The second right, attending their meeting at the Deria Palace, Raydeh, Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.
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The major American and Russian delegations of conversations gathered in the Saudi Arabian capital in Riyadh on Tuesday, when the two sides started an initial round of high -risk negotiations aimed at ending the war in Ukraine.
The talks are based on a phone call last week between President Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, as the two leaders agreed to work together at the end of the war.
Foreign Minister Marco Rubio headed the American delegation with the best diplomat in Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who leads the Russian mission.
In a statement after a meeting on Tuesday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Tami Bruce said that Rubio and Lavrov agreed to “set the basis for future cooperation in issues of mutual geopolitical interests and historical economic and investment opportunities that will arise from a successful end to the conflict in Ukraine,” Bruce also indicated that the United States also indicated that the United States And Russia will appoint a “thin difference
The American team also includes National Security Adviser Mike Walz, especially White House envoy Steve Witkeov. Witkoff met with Russian officials in Moscow recently last week to negotiate the exchange of prisoners, the American school teacher, Mark Vogel, was released.
After getting out of the conversations, the Kremlin advisor, Yuri Oshkov, was optimistic about indicating that the conversation lasted for 4 and a half hours.
“It was a very serious discussion about all the questions we wanted to address,” Ushakov said, adding that both sides agreed on better relationships that were in the interest of Washington and Moscow.
The Saudi talks excluded European allies
The sudden American conductors in the United States have amazed the allies in Europe and Ukraine-with the expression of their fear of marginalization in talks that define their collective future.
None of them was invited to participate in the Saudi talks, and Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinski pledged that Kiev would not know any agreements made in her absence.
Before the talks, the Kremlin adopted this moment a diplomat of a new era in the dialogue.
“From now on, we will talk about peace, not war,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview broadcast on Sunday on Country TV.
Meanwhile, Lavrov spoke in his speech on the eve of the Saudi meeting that Trump and Putin in his phone call agreed to end this “extraordinary period”, when Moscow and Washington refused to talk to each other.
In a sign of the new spirit of cooperation, the Kremlin confirmed on Monday that it had agreed to release unilaterally from an American who was arrested with a small amount of cannabis in his luggage at Moscow Airport earlier this month.
During the years of Biden, many Americans – including basketball star Britney Grener and school teacher Vogel – received prolonged prison sentences on a similar charge. Among the many Americans were imprisoned by Russia on doubtful charges, while the Biden administration said it was a pattern of Russian “hostage diplomacy” to enhance the swap of prisoners.
The beginning of the end of the war
In talks, Lavrov said his job is “listening” to American proposals and submitting a report to the Kremlin.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Bruce said that the United States was there to determine the danger of Moscow in finding a settlement settlement.
However, Lavrov made it clear that he would reject any idea of returning the lands that Russia annexed to Ukraine.
“They say we may have to give regional concessions – but what about?” Lavrov said. “So can the ethnic Russians live there?” In reference to the alleged atrocities by the underestimated Ukrainian forces independently.
His comments come as the latest sign that with Russian forces gains in the battlefield, Moscow may be in a small mood for settlement.
The work of the American negotiators was more complicated by statements outside the White House even before the conversations began.
President Trump has publicly said that any peace based on Ukraine ends NATO’s aspirations and abandons its lands that Moscow seized – in essence to major Russian demands.
Sergey Marcov, the former Carmlin advisor, tells that NPR expects that Trump’s first American agenda in America means that the US President has no great interest in the conditions specified for the settlement.
“Trump wants to end the war,” said Markov.
Putin has expanded Trump’s invitation to visit Moscow in the near future. This gesture caused speculation that Trump can join Putin in the red arena in May – when Russia celebrates the eighty anniversary of its victory in another war: World War II.