The governments of Russia and the United States have agreed on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia the designation of two teams to relaunch the dialog parts “.
The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, have broken the ice with a first contact in Saudi Arabia that, according to Washington, shows that President Donald Trump “wants to stop the deaths” and Achieve peace. “He is the only world leader who can get Ukraine and Russia to agree,” the State Department has highlighted in a statement.
The Rubio himself, at the end of the meeting and in a statements before the media, has stressed that in just a few months the Tenar of the White House has turned a turn to the “global conservation”, so that he no longer speaks of ” If the war will end “but of” how it will end. ”
The Riad meeting has concluded, in the strictly bilateral field, with the mutual commitment to establish a consultation mechanism with which Moscow and Washington can file roughness and even “normalize” the activity of their respective diplomatic missions after years of cross expulsions .
For its part, the Russian Foreign Minister has cited as a “urgent” and ‘and’ simple agreement that the two countries again designate ambassadors, after a meeting that has lasted more than five hours and that Lavrov has described as ” Very useful “, with hands lying from both sides.
“There are reasons to believe that the US part has begun to better understand our position,” he said in a public statement in which he has confirmed that the US delegation has raised a moratorium to stop attacks on energy facilities both in Russia and Ukraine .
The United States and Russia also aspire to lay the foundations for future cooperation in “mutual” areas of interest, both geopolitical and economic, especially with a view to taking advantage of the “opportunities” that would arise from a hypothetical “successful” final ” In Ukraine, explains the North American part.
The Trump administration, which discards for now to date a future face to face with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, assumes that neither the call last week between both leaders nor the meeting on Tuesday is enough to seal peace, but yes Consider that it is “an important step forward.”
European role
The head of American diplomacy has confirmed that both he and the rest of the leaders present in this Tuesday’s appointment will continue to be involved in future contacts with Russia, for which the doubt still persists to what extent he will integrate other actors, including the Ukraine itself.
A day after the main European leaders were urgently quoted in Paris to try to make a common front in all this diplomatic maelstrom, Rubio has advanced that the EU “will be on the table at some point” and has stressed that this block has also adopted sanctions against Moscow in these last three years.