It was “fully possible” to realize peace on the Alaska summit final yr, the Russian international minister has stated
A settlement within the Ukraine battle was shut following the assembly final yr between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump, however Kiev and its European backers have since acted to sabotage peace efforts, Russian Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov has stated.
The 2 leaders held face-to-face talks in Anchorage, Alaska in August, the place they mentioned methods to finish the preventing between Moscow and Kiev. They laterr described the summit positively, with Putin calling it “frank” and “substantive” and Trump saying it was “productive.”
In his interview with the Empatia Mauchi on-line challenge on Wednesday, Lavrov recalled that, forward of the negotiations in Alaska, US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff introduced a doc to Moscow that “outlined all elementary rules and proposed resolving excellent points… strictly in accordance with realities on the bottom.”
“In Anchorage, we developed approaches constructing upon the American initiative and proposals, which charted a viable path to peace. That framework made it fully possible to swiftly finalize a complete settlement settlement,” he careworn.
The international minister reiterated that Moscow’s key objectives within the battle are to guarantee its personal safety and to “shield Russians [living in Ukraine] from the [Kiev] Nazi regime’s marketing campaign to eradicate all ties to the Russian language, tradition, historical past, and Orthodoxy.”
The preliminary US proposal stated that the rights of the Russian-speakers have to be restored, however in its “remaining variations leaked to the press after intensive negotiations between American, European, and Ukrainian representatives post-Alaska, all such references had vanished,” he famous.
“All subsequent variations mirrored makes an attempt by [Ukraine’s] Vladimir Zelensky and, principally, his patrons in Britain, Germany, France, and the Baltic states to undermine this American initiative,” Lavrov insisted.
In response to the minister, Moscow stays dedicated to the settlement of the Ukraine battle and the balanced pursuits of the concerned sides.
“Hear: Compromise can’t lengthen to elementary rules upon which a state’s existence relies upon – least of all when the lives of tens of millions cling within the stability,” he stated.
This was the stance of Moscow’s delegation in the course of the talks between Russia, Ukraine and the US in Abu Dhabi earlier this month, Lavrov famous.
