Russian Foreign Minister Serguéi Lavrov, and the United States, Marco Rubio, will gather in Riyadary tomorrow to negotiate and lay the foundations for a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine.
It has been the Kremlin who has announced the negotiation and has commented that the Putin advisor for international affairs, Yuri Ushakov will also participate. It is the First meeting Between a Russian Foreign Minister and another in the United States since January 2022, one month before the beginning of the war.
The negotiations will develop with the backdrop of a possible meeting Between Vladimir Putin and the president of the United States, Donald Trump soon, after agreeing on the phone last week.
“There is a long way to go”
“They are expected to hold a meeting with their American counterparts, which will be centered first on the Restoration of the entire range of Russian-American relations“Dmitri Peskov, presidential spokesman, said in the daily telephone press conference.
For its part, Marco Rubio has assured in an interview at the CBS News that is “a long way to go” before opening peace negotiations with Russia. “A phone call does not solve a war As complex as this, but I can tell you that Donald Trump is the only leader in the world who could potentially begin with that process, “Rubio’s exact words have been.
The Russian minister has made it clear that Not only are you going to talk about Ukraine Because “it is necessary to resume dialogue on all the issues that, in one way or another, can be resolved with the participation of Russia and the United States”, including the situation in the Middle East and “other regions of the world.”
Zelenski has said that he will not accept anything that comes out of that meeting
Meanwhile, Zelenski has confirmed at a press conference in the Arab Emirates that will not recognize anything that is talk about at that meeting. “Ukraine will not accept it. Ukraine did not know any of this. And Ukraine considers null the results of any negotiation on Ukraine without Ukraine. We cannot recognize any agreement on us without us“He said sharply.
In addition, the Ukrainian president explained that his visit to Riad has nothing to do with the meeting between the United States and Moscow, but that will ask the prime minister and Saudi heir prince, Mohamed Bin Salmán, about it.
Europe will not be at the meeting
Europe will not be present at this meeting. In fact, Lavrov before leaving for Riad has been very sharp with respect to his presence in the negotiation: “I don’t know what they paint (Europeans) At the negotiating table. “In fact, at the Munich Conference, the United States has asserted that European countries will not participate, while Moscow has a long time has been in the breach of Minsk’s agreements for a long time kyiv, Berlin and Paris ten years ago.
Although the main European leaders are going to gather today in Paris to adopt a common position and address future challenges.
