Washington introduced to all parties the “contours of the durable and long -term world”, the statement of the representative of the US State Department Tammy Bruce said that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio talked with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. “The Secretary of State handed over the same message to the Russian colleague that the US team reported to the Ukrainian delegation and our European allies in Paris: US President Donald Trump and the United States want this war to end, and presented the contours of a strong and long -term world,” the statement said, which “contours” are in question. The “enthusiastic” reaction in Paris. Such an attitude was said in the State Department, shows that “the world is possible if all parties take on obligations to reach an agreement.” The Russian Foreign Ministry reported that Lavrov and Rubio discussed negotiations between US representatives with Ukraine, France and other European countries in Paris. Lavrov “confirmed the readiness of Moscow to continue working together with American colleagues in order to reliably eliminate the root causes of the Ukrainian crisis.” The minister and the Secretary of State agreed to keep in touch, including “in the light of meetings planned by Americans and Europeans with the Ukrainian side next week,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said. In turn, the Champs Elysees said that representatives of France, the USA, Great Britain, Germany and Ukraine agreed to continue negotiations on the ceasefire next week in London. The French authorities called the meeting in Paris an “unprecedented format”, within the framework of which “conditions of the ceasefire” were discussed. On April 17, a series of meetings with the participation of American and Ukrainian delegations, as well as representatives of European countries, were discussed in Paris. In particular, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, as well as the Special Supervisors of the President of the United States, Steve Whitkoff and Kit Kellogo held bilateral negotiations with representatives of Ukraine – the head of the president’s office Andrei Ermak, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Sibigiga and the Minister of Defense Rustema Umarov. Then the delegations of the United States and Ukraine met with representatives of the participants. (Tagstotranslate) News
