Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov telephone with his American counterpart Rubio

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had a telephone conference with US counterpart Marco Rubio, on the subject of direct negotiations between Moscow and Kiev in Istanbul, the Russian Foreign Ministry said today. “Lavrov pointed to the US’s positive role to help Kiev ultimately accept the proposal of Russian President Vladimir Putin to repeat the Istanbul talks,” the ministry said in a press release, adding that Russia was going to work. Russian negotiators in the peace talks in Istanbul asked Ukraine to withdraw its troops from all the Ukrainian provinces claimed by Moscow before agreeing to a truce, a senior Ukrainian officials told Reuters today. This request, along with others that the Ukrainian official said they were raised during Friday’s negotiations, exceed the terms of a Plan of Peace Agreement that the US […]
Source: News Beast

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