“We do not have high expectations about what will happen tomorrow,” said Marco Rubio during a meeting with journalists accompanying him at the meeting of the ministers of NATO countries in Antalya. He stated that, contrary to earlier announcements, he would not be present at these conversations, but the US would send someone there “at the appropriate level”.
He repeated the earlier statement of President Donald Trump, who suggested that a Trump-Putin meeting was needed to solve the conflict.
“The only way to achieve a breakthrough is a meeting between President Trump and President Putin. This will require this level of commitment to achieve a breakthrough in this matter” – he said.
Trump previously suggested that he could fly to Turkey for conversations, if Putin was there, and on Thursday he stated that “Nothing will happen until Putin and he met“.
He assured, however, that he was not disappointed with the low level of the delegation, which Russia sent to Istanbul.
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Rubio also denied the reports that the US was against the invitation of President Volodymyr Zelanski to the NATO summit in Hague.
Ultimately, the Minister of Defense Rust Rust of the Dies is to be the head of the Ukrainian delegation in Istanbul, while the Russian delegation is managed by the adviser of Vladimir Putin Vladimir Miedinski.
