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Russia and the United States have agreed to “establish the foundation for future cooperation” in order to strengthen the ties and end the Ukraine decline after being held the first high -ranking talks about the conflict since the first months of President Vladimir Putin’s invasion had.
After four and a half hours of negotiations in Riad on Tuesday, the US State Department in Riad said the war And set up a diplomatic channel to solve bilateral problems.
“This must be a permanent end of the war and not a temporary end, as we have seen in the past” the discussions.
“The practical reality is that there will be some discussions about areas and that there will be discussions about security guarantees. These are only fundamental basics,” said Waltz that Trump “was determined to move very quickly”.
The Riad talks have triggered fears in Kyiv and in European capitals that Trump wants Fix the conflict on Putin’s conditions. Russia seemed to harden his position on Tuesday, since his Ministry of Foreign Affairs excluded a role in Europe in the Ukraine talks and NATO asked an open invitation from 2008 to Kyiv.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that after the US Russian talks he moved a visit to Saudi Arabia and described on Tuesday as a “surprise”.
In the language, which was largely reproduced by the Russian side, the US State Department said that the new diplomatic channel between the two countries “the foundation for future cooperation in mutual geopolitical interest and the historical economic and investment opportunities from one The property would put a successful end to the conflict in Ukraine ”.
The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the two sides had agreed to “ensure the immediate appointment of ambassadors to the other cities of the other and to eliminate the obstacles that have introduced the (previous) bidges in relation to our diplomatic missions “.
These obstacles included “the designation of diplomats, the question of confiscation of our ownership and bank transactions,” said Lavrov. “Our MPs will soon agree on a meeting to evaluate the need for these obstacles,” he added.
Russia said the two sides would also appoint separate delegations to discuss Ukraine.
When asked what concessions Moscow would do, Rubio said, such a step would result from a “hard, difficult diplomacy” in “closed rooms over a certain period of time”.
He added: “Nobody is excluded here.”
Rubio said the EU “will be at the table at some point because they also have sanctions that were imposed”.
At a summit this week intends to beat a joint reaction to the US Russian discussions, European leaders, collapse By sending peace security forces to Ukraine. While the United Kingdom offered to put “boots on the ground”, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain contradicted themselves.
On Tuesday, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Moscow was “categorically against a European peace security”.
Waltz said that the USA had “shuttle diplomacy” and consulted Zelenskyy and French President Emmanuel Macron, while Trump will meet British Prime Minister Keir Starmer next week.
He added that he had rejected the “idea that our allies were not consulted”.
The meeting on Tuesday in Riad was the first of its kind between the United States and Russia since Moscow 2022 invasion in Ukraine. In a sight that was almost unthinkable a few weeks ago, Russian and American flags flew side by side in front of the opulent palace in which the meeting took place.
The conversations marked an extraordinary turn in just a few days after Trump called Putin last week to end the war – without consulting Ukraine or its European allies.
Kyiv said it will reject everyone Deal imposed without his participationWhile the European countries are trying to climb a seat at the table.
When the talks took place on Tuesday, Zelenskyy visited his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who previously tried to play a broking role in conflict.
“We don’t want peace to be conveyed behind the scenes without our commitment,” said the Ukrainian President. “Peace cannot be achieved without Ukraine.”
Yuri Ushakov, Putin’s foreign policy advisor, who accompanied Lavrov in the talks, said that Russia and the United States had “agreed to take the interests into account”, but it was “difficult to say” when they “became closer”.
Ushakov said that the United States and Russia would work to “create the conditions for a Trump-Putin meeting, although he said it would probably not take place next week, since“ thorough work ”was first necessary.
The United States seemed to have placed some of Putin’s core requirements before the talks started after the Ukraine ambitions to join NATO and to regain the area occupied by Russia were not “realistic”.
