Second Round of Negotiations: US and Russian delegations will meet in Riyadh on January 25-Die Zeit
About it writes the German edition of Die Zeit. Journalists, citing diplomatic circles, report that this meeting will be a continuation of negotiations between the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, whose first round was held on February 18. The second negotiations in Riyadh will take place the next day after the meeting of French President Emmanuel Macron and US President Donald Trump Washington, German journalists say.
Negotiations in Riyadh took place the next day after French President Emmanuel Macron's visit to US President Donald Trump in Washington. After talking to the American leader, Macron said that the armistice in the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine could be announced in the coming weeks. The French president noted that despite the differences in his views on the end of the war with Trump's thoughts, there is a "way" to complete the fighting.
It should be noted that on February 23, the Deputy Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Ryabkov spoke to the Russian propaganda information agency TASS that "no meeting of the Russian Federation and the USA on February 25 in Riyadh is prepared. " We will remind, the negotiations of the Russian Federation and the US in Riyadh took place on February 18. It was the first official contact of the states from the beginning of a full -scale war in Ukraine.
Representatives of Ukraine and European countries were not invited to negotiate. The media reported that US and Russian delegations agreed to create negotiation groups on war in Ukraine during the meeting on February 18. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that the United States was allowed to remove sanctions from the Russian Federation after the war.