Russian Secretary of State and Putin Assistant to Riyadh/ Lavrov: We want to hear the words of American partners

The Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced today that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian President Yuri Oshakov to prepare for US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. They went to Riyadh.

Rashatodi News agency reported that Peskov said about Lavrov and Oshakov’s trip to Riyadh: “They will meet with their American counterparts.”

In the midst of reports of reports of Saudi Arabia hosting the Ukrainian peace talks between the United States and Russia, Peskov said the first meeting would be “to revive Russian -US relations.”

The Russian newspaper reports that talks between US and Russian delegations on the Ukrainian crisis resolution will be held in Riyadh on Tuesday, with the US side with Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, White House National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and Trump’s Special Representative Steven Witcaf. He will participate in the Middle East affairs.

Rubio is currently on a regional trip to West Asia and met with Israeli officials in the occupied territories on Sunday and entered Riyadh today. Other US officials have also said they will arrive in Saudi Arabia Monday.

The US president also said Monday morning that he may meet with the Russian president. According to him, Ukrainian President Walodimir Zelksky will also be present in the talks.

Zelnsky had previously criticized Kiev’s dismissal of the negotiations. The Ukrainian president told Axius on Friday that he had not received invitations to be in Saudi Arabia.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov today said he would like to listen to US delegation partners on his trip to Riyadh. “

“When we negotiate with our partners’ suggestions, first of all we want to listen to them,” he told reporters.

The Russian Foreign Minister added that he will report the outcome of his talks with the US delegation to the Russian government and will decide on further action.

He also said about European participation in the Ukrainian peace talks that European countries had the opportunity to participate in Ukraine peace in the Minsk agreement.

Lavrov said: Their demands to participate in the process of negotiations on Ukraine have been repeatedly fulfilled, which is certainly a Minsk agreement that Ukraine began to violate. So they have had the opportunity to do so.

The Russian Foreign Minister said that if European countries “want to stop the Ukrainian war so they can continue later”, they would have no place at the negotiating table.

Lavrov added: Russia has no reason to invite the European Union to participate in the talks, because its position has not changed.

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