New York (dpa-AFX)-After the recent change of course of US President Donald Trump in the Ukraine War, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrow. At the conversation on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, Rubio reaffirmed the claim of US President Donald Trump after the bloodshed in the Ukraine War, said a spokesman for the US State Department.
Rubio also emphasized the need for Moscow to take “concrete steps to a permanent solution” of the war. Lavrov, on the other hand, emphasized Russia’s willingness to solve the conflict, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
The Russian chief diplomat recalled that between Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin And Trump at her summit in Alaska agreed that the basic causes of the conflict would first have to be removed. Lavrov once again accused Ukraine and the EU that they would drag war.
The day before, Trump had demonstratively stood on the side of Selenskyj and changed his position on the Ukraine War: Ukraine was able to recapture its territory from the Russian aggressor with the help of Western allies, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. On the other hand, he represented Russia as weak and called the country a “paper tiger”.
Russia wants to continue contact with the USA
According to Russian information, Lavrow and Rubio have also agreed to continue the “constructive dialogue”. Both sides would have spoken of a whole complex of bilateral questions, including the resumption of social-political contacts and the restoration of the work of the respective diplomatic representations. Both sides would have confirmed the importance of normalizing their relationships after the presidents had the impetus./NGU/DP/Men