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The United States and Russia have agreed to “designate high-level teams to start working on an outcome of the conflict in Ukraine as soon as possible, sustainable, sustainable and acceptable for all parties,” said Tuesday The US State Department.
This declaration comes at the end of the meeting held in Saudi Arabia between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov.
In addition, Washington and Moscow agreed on the implementation of a consultation mechanism to “take the necessary measures to normalize the functioning of our respective diplomatic missions”, according to the statement of the State Department.
The two parties promise to “throw the foundations of future cooperation” on questions of common geopolitical interest and on economic and investment opportunities that will emerge from a successful end of the conflict in Ukraine.
These talks intervene in the wake of the telephone call last week, between American presidents Donald Trump and Russian, Vladimir Putin. Throughout his electoral campaign, Trump had promised to work to put an end to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict which, according to him, “should never have taken place”, and which made “millions of victims”.
Last Wednesday during the telephone interview that the tenant of the White House described as “long” and “productive”, the two heads of state agreed to start “immediately” peace talks on the situation in Ukraine .
“A phone call followed by a single meeting is not enough to establish lasting peace. We must act, and today we have taken an important step forward, “said the spokesperson for the State Department, Tammy Bruce, after the meeting held in Ryad between Marco Rubio and Sergey Lavrov .
