Meeting in Riyad between the United States and Russia, with negotiations on Ukraine in the background

Representatives of Russia and the United States meet on Tuesday in Riyad (Saudi Aarabia) to tackle the standardization of bilateral relations and preparations for a top of the presidents of both countries. Also on the table will be future peace negotiations on Ukraine that the American president Donald Trump Last week agreed with Vladimir PutinPresident of Russia.

They will be the bosses of the diplomacy of Russia, Serguei Lavrovand vs, Marco RubioThat will open negotiations in the Saudi capital to normalize bilateral relations and to lay the foundation for a peaceful regulation of the war in Ukraine.

Although it was already known that Rubio would travel to Riad, it is the Kremlin who announced the meeting, in which he will also participate Yuri UshakovPutin Advisor for International Affairs. “It is expected that on Tuesday in Riad they will hold a meeting with their American counterparts, who will first be centered on the restoration of the entire range of Russian-American relations,” said Dmitri Peskov, spokesperson for the president, in his telephone press conference daily .

In this respect, Rubio has assured the CBS news chain that there is “a long way to go” before peace negotiations with Russia are opened. He also said that Putin showed “interest in La Paz” during his conversation with Trump and that “will determine whether it is serious or not in the coming weeks and days.” “A phone call does not solve a war as complex as it is,” said Rubio, emphasizing that “Donald Trump is the only leader in the world who could possibly start that process.”

There is no room for the European Union

If the US made it clear at the Munich conference that European countries will not participate in the negotiations, Moscow has long maintained that position and as an argument the violation of Minsk’s agreements ten years ago by Kiev, Berlin, Berlin and Paris.

As expected, Serguei Lavrov has assured that there is no room for the European Union In the conversations about Ukraine planned for this Tuesday in Saudi Arabia. “I don’t know what they would do at the negotiating table. If they sit down with the aim of continuing the war, why does he invite?”

Zenski will not recognize the meanings

For his part, the Ukrainian president, Volodimir ZelenskiHe has already improved that he will not recognize the conclusions of the meeting between Russia and the United States, a meeting for which Ukraine has not been invited. “Ukraine will not accept it. Ukraine does not know this and believes that any negotiation about Ukraine without Ukraine will not give any results,” the president said since Abú Dabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, in an online press conference for Ukrainian pressure on.

However, Zelenski wanted to make it clear that his official visit for the region has nothing to do with the meeting between Washington and Moscow, although he has acknowledged that once in Riad he will ask Saudi Prime Minister and Prince Prince, Mohamed bin Salmán, about the meeting this Tuesday. “It’s interesting,” he arranged.