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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke to the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov next week before the talks between Washington and Moscow, when the relationships between the countries thaw.
Rubio, national security advisor Mike Waltz and the Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff Will meet Russian officials in Saudi Arabia next week, according to a person who is familiar with the matter.
The high-ranking meeting takes place after US President Donald Trump spoke to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and the two Agree to start negotiations “immediately” for the end of the war in Ukraine.
Rubio “confirmed President Trump’s commitment to find an end to the conflict in Ukraine,” said Tammy Bruce, spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry, about the Lavrov call. “In addition, they discussed the opportunity to work together on a number of other bilateral topics.”
The call between Rubio and Lavrov is an essential sign that work of content has started in negotiations and the two nations are back in regular contact, whereby diplomacy is normalized. After the full invasion of Russia in Ukraine, the diplomatic contact at the high level between Washington and Moscow heard, although the nations held back the channels.
Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Lavrov and Rubio have agreed to work together with the restoration of the mutually respectful intergovernmental dialogue, according to Trump’s lines with Putin on Wednesday, and a meeting between the two leaders.
They also agreed to “create a line of communication in order to solve the problems in the US Russian relationship in the interest of eliminating one-sided obstacles for mutual retail, economic and investment cooperation that the United States was ready to sanctions against Moscow to reset through the invasion.
Lavrov and Rubio shared a “mutual willingness to work together on current international questions” such as Ukraine, the Palestinian areas, the Middle East and other affairs, added the ministry. They also discussed the abolition of mutual restrictions on the messages of the others and agreed to build a meeting at expert level in order to agree “concrete steps to cancel mutual barriers” that restrict their work.
The US embassy in Moscow and Russia’s embassy in Washington works after several rounds of tit-for-tat external extinguishing, which go back to the allegations of Russian election disorders in Trump’s first victory in 2016.
Trump said on Thursday on Thursday that it still had “a long way” to solve the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, but his reputation with Putin marked a long way to get a solution to the war.
Trump said he instructed Rubio, CIA director John Ratcliffe, Waltz and Witkoff, to lead the US negotiation team. His Ukraine sent Keith Kellogg was noticeably absent in this list.
The rhetoric of Trump and other US officials this week alerted Kyiv and European capitals that fear Negotiations with Moscow in Washington.
The United States has asked the European capitals to provide Detailed suggestions On the weapons, peacekeepers and security agreements, they were able to convey Ukraine with Russia as part of all security guarantees to end their war.
Washington sent a questionnaire to the European governments in order to protect the continent’s willingness after the war and to measure the price that Europe can pay for a seat at the negotiating table with Moscow.
