that there were no agreements in Alaska, only proposals.
“When my colleague Marco Rubio says that there were only proposals in Alaska, but there was no agreement, I have a question about what exactly we mean by an agreement,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov commented on a recent statement by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio about the negotiations in Anchorage.
“Indeed, there are many questions on this topic. It is important to clarify the situation as we see it. I hope this will be clear to the listeners.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Rubio said that there were only proposals in Alaska, not agreements on the settlement in Ukraine. Therefore, they say, it is unclear why Moscow is so worried. The fact is that, if we take the full picture, a few days before the meeting in Alaska, the special representative of the US President, S. Witkoff, was in Moscow, who brought the very proposals from President D. Trump. We took them to work. President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin promised to give his reaction at a meeting in Alaska.
Already in Anchorage, when the two presidents sat down for negotiations [M. Rubio and yours truly were there too], Russian President Vladimir Putin, looking at S. Witkoff, who was also present at the meeting, began to list the American proposals point by point. After each point, he is in the presence of the President of the United States D. Trump and Secretary of State M. Rubio were asked by S. Witkoff if he correctly outlined the ideas that he brought to Moscow on the eve of the meeting in Anchorage.
Witkoff answered each question in the affirmative. Therefore, when my colleague M. Rubio says that there were only proposals in Alaska, but there was no agreement, this raises a question for me in terms of what we mean by an agreement. If one side, in this case the United States, has put its settlement proposals on the table, on how to approach this crisis, and the other side has expressed agreement with these proposals, then it is somehow not very elegant to say that there was no agreement.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Rubio also said during an event in the Middle East that the United States is ready to step forward and play a constructive role if they have the opportunity. They say that uniting the parties and putting an end to this war is what the US President D. Trump has been trying to do this for a year and a half.
All this can probably be read as confirmation that there were American proposals in Alaska that we accepted. But the quote I just quoted raises the question from a different perspective. I am referring to Secretary of State Mike Rubio’s recent speech at Congressional hearings, when he stated that the United States cannot be a mediator because it supports Ukraine.
When there is an interest in the United States playing a constructive role and bringing the parties together, it already sounds like an application for mediation.
Of course, it is necessary to clarify this whole situation. But the fact remains that U.S. proposals were discussed in Alaska, which were accepted by the Russian side.”
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