Negotiations With US ‘Valuable, Useful’: Russia’s Lavrov Says
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that the negotiations held with the US officials in Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh were ‘useful’ and ‘valuable’.
Russian and US officials spent four hours in Saudi Arabia in talks delegations described as “positive” and a “first step”, despite criticism from Ukraine and Europe over their lack of involvement.
US State Secretary Marco Rubio called the meeting “the first step of a long and difficult journey.”
US and Russian officials, who met for high-stakes talks in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, agreed to “normalize” relations between the two countries and begin discussions on the war in Ukraine, the US State Department said, Euronews reported.
He added that concessions should be made on both sides but that it would be wrong to “predetermine those”.
US National Security Adviser Michael Waltz also said that discussion of territory and security guarantees would “underlie” any type of talks moving forward and insisted there should be an “end” to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
