The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said that the management of President Donald Trump in a position to abandon efforts to negotiate a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine if there is no significant progress on the factor in the next few days.
Rubio, who met with European and Ukrainian leaders in Paris a day before, told Newshouings on Friday: “If it is not imaginable to end the war in Ukraine, we have to move on. “
The Secretary of State then added that Washington was not going to “continue with this company for weeks and months” and that it had to temporarily if an agreement would be “feasible. “
Rubio said Trump felt very strongly and “dedicated a lot of time and power to that”, but there were other “things” that deserve “so much, more attention. “
He said that Washington looked to see the end of the “terrible” war, but added “it is not our Wararray . . . we do not start it. “
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The Secretary of State described a Calfinishar for the speed with which Washington expects the peace procedure to progress to remain worried in the negotiations. Rubio said Trump “spent 87 days at the highest point of this government making efforts several times to put an end to this war,” however, Washington has no interest in letting this consultation extend for several weeks and months. “So we have to very temporarily now, and I am talking about a few days, either to be attainable or not in the coming weeks. ” Once the United States has moved, Rubio said that Trump’s management “would do what we can on the sidelines. We will be able to attend every time it is in a position to have peace. “
Shortly after Rubio’s comments, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Newhouits on Friday that Russia remained open to dialogue. “Russia seeks to achieve a solution to this clash and its national interests, and remains open to dialogue. We are actively involved in this dialogue,” said the spokesman. Peskov also pointed out that a single month moratorium that prevented the two parties from heading to the other energy infrastructure, and Russian President Vladimir Putin did not give other commands on the subject.
Rubio’s comments also occurred a few hours after the Minister of the Economy of Ukraine, Yulia Svyrydenko, signed a “protocol of intention” with the Treasury Secretary, Scott Besent, who “opens the way to an Economic Association Agreement and the creation of the Investment Fund for the reconstruction of Ukraine. ” Svydenko added: “It is very vital that the document takes into account the preference of other American people to invest with other Ukrainian people in a free, sovereign and safe Ukraine. ” We do not know how this investment fund plan would be affected if Rubio follows his risk of moving away from peace conversations.