In New York, negotiations were held by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov. This is stated in the statement of the US State Department.
According to the statement, the parties discussed the conflict in Ukraine.
as reported, Rubio “repeated the call of US President Donald Trump to stop the murder and emphasized the need for Moscow to take significant steps to sustainable settlement of the Russian-Ukrainian war.”
the meeting took place behind closed Doors on the fields of the 80th session of the UN General Assembly. Negotiations lasted more than 50 minutes. The parties did not make statements for the press.
earlier, the head of American diplomacy stated that US President Donald Trump “loses patience” against Russia.
”The president is a very patient, he is very committed to the matter of peace, but his patience is not endlessly. And, as he repeatedly stated, he has the possibility of imposing additional economic sanctions on the Russian The federation, if necessary, in order to put an end to this conflict, ”Rubio said at a meeting of the UN Security Council in Ukraine.
Donald Trump, in turn, said that Ukraine, with the financial assistance of the European Union and the support of NATO, is able to fight and conquer its entire territory, returning it to the original boundaries.” At the same time, the American leader called Russia a “paper tiger”, predicted large economic problems in the near future.
July 10 Lavrov and Rubio held a bilateral meeting on the fields of events through the Association of Southeast Asia (ASEAN) in the capital of Malaysia Kuala Lumpur.
of the heads of diplomacy of the Russian Federation and the US Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump on August 15 in Alaska. Negotiations were held in the format “three by three”.