Without the participation of Ukraine and its European supporters, the most important diplomats of the United States and Russia are carrying out direct negotiations in Saudi Arabia today. The Russia attack against Ukraine will probably dominate the first meeting of the new American Foreign Minister Marco Rubio with his experienced Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.
While Rubio is accompanied by the American specialist Steve Witkoff and the national security adviser Mike Waltz, Lawrow traveled with Juri Uchakow consultant of the foreign policy of Kremlin Chief Vladimir Putin. “The most important thing is to achieve a real standardization of relationships between us and Washington,” Uchakow told the Russian state of television on arrival at Riyadh Airport. He did not want to comment on the negotiating positions.
Preparation for meetings by Trump and Putin
According to the Kremlin, the conversations are also about preparing a possible meeting of Putin with US President Donald Trump in Saudi Arabia. Rubios Tross arrived in the Gulf state before the Russian delegation.
The Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Senskyj nowadays also plans a trip to Saudi Arabia. However, he was not taught in advance about the meeting of the Americans with the Russians and he would not participate, he said when he visited the United Arab Emirates.
He would not recognize similarities that would be achieved in “negotiations about Ukraine without Ukraine,” Selenskyj emphasized, according to the Interfax-Ukraine News Agency, during a press conference in Abu Dhabi. Russia and the United States could of course discuss bilateral problems.
Neuling Rubio meets Veteran Lawrow
The war war against Ukraine, ordered by Putin in February 2022, led to a deep break between the United States and Russia. In the first three years of the war, the United States were the most important supporter and arms supplier of Ukraine under President Joe Biden. His successor Donald Trump, who was sworn in in January, heralded a drastic change of natural. Last week he called Putin and spoke with him after an official presentation about a possible end of the war. Rubio and Lawrow then also called.
In the US Senate, Rubio voted against an auxiliary package of billion dollars to support Ukraine last year. He is much less profiled than Lavrow, who has been a minister on the world stage for more than 20 years and started his diplomatic career in the 1970s.
Rubio recently said about Trump that he was a “businessman who has to do with politics”. Also because of this approach it is afraid in Kiev that Trump’s government wants to maintain a peace for the United States that are completely unacceptable to Ukraine. Russia, including the Black Sea Peninsula Crim, which had already been annexed in 2014, has already checked almost a fifth of Ukrainian territory.
No decisions at Crisis Peaks in Paris
Impressed by the abrupt change of the new US government, some European heads of state and government and the leaders of EU and NATO had conversations in Paris on Monday at the invitation of France -President Emmanuel Macron. The crisist top was overshadowed due to disagreements about the possible placement of peacemakes to guarantee a peace agreement between Kiev and Moscow. Decisions were not made in the informal discussions.
The German Chancellor Olaf Scholz described the discussion about peacemakes as annoying and fully premature. He criticized that the heads of the Ukrainians were discussed about possible results of peace talks that have not yet taken place. “This is extremely inappropriate to say it very openly and honestly,” he said. It is an “inappropriate debate about the wrong time and the wrong subject,” said Scholz.
He stood against British Prime Minister Keir Strander and Host, among others, Macron. Shortly before the meeting in Paris, Strander was ready to send soldiers to Ukraine if necessary. It is also said of France that it has expressed the willingness to send troops long ago. NATO Secretary -General Mark Rutte said after the meeting that details should still be decided. However, Europe is ‘ready and willing’ to take over a leading role in offering security guarantees for Ukraine and to invest ‘much more’ in its own safety.
Macron then called Senskyj. “We have a common perspective: there must be reliable, strong security guarantees,” Senskyj then wrote to Telegram. Other solutions without guarantees, such as a fragile stop -the fire, would only be the prelude to a new Russian war against Diebeelraine and other countries in Europe.
US Special Envoy Kellogg travels to Ukraine
Senskyj also confirmed that the American special envoy Keith Kellogg is expected in Ukraine on Thursday. During his three -day stay he will mainly talk to military and commander -in -chief oxander Syrskyj.
He hoped that Kellogg will gain insight into the security guarantees that Kiev requires back to Washington, says Senskyj. “I think we will understand after returning to the US when there will be a meeting of me and President Trump,” said the Ukrainian president.
Source: Krone
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