The US said Istanbul's negotiations with Russia on Thursday were “constructive,” but the Moscow delegation praised them as “meaningful” after the second round of settlement speech was broken.
Diplomats from the US and Russia met and spoke on Thursday at the residence of the US Consul General in Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey. The discussion was said to have focused on ensuring that both countries were able to properly operate their respective countries' embassies.
The US State Department said their delegation, led by Sonata Coulter, deputy director of Russia and Central Europe, in a statement, has raised issues regarding the funding of missions and made it clear that staff can be maintained sustainably at the US embassy in Moscow. The American team discovered the discussion as “constructive” and in a six-hour talk, they said, “both sides identified specific initial steps to stabilize their bilateral mission operations.”
Although not stated when or where, an agreement has been reached to hold further meetings.
Russia, on their part, said in a statement through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: It was agreed to continue the dialogue through this channel. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov appears to be aiming to utilize the headlines that Russia has created to actively revive foreign observers, claiming on Thursday that “we want to build dialogue with not only the United States, but with all countries from a standpoint of mutual respect and mutual interest.”
The Russian ministries spoke in a similar language to the US in their statement, and from their perspective the purpose of the discussion was “to secure unobstructed funding on a retrograde basis, which would not interfere with the activities of Russia and the US diplomatic missions.” Including things like Barb towards the previous Biden White House, Russia argued that the current difficulties in relations between the two countries were not their fault, but that many in the West questioned, saying their hope was to overcome the “many 'stimulus' inherited from the previous US administration.
“Co-operative measures” have been agreed and the ministry said it “especially emphasized” the need for “practical outcomes.” In a language more specific than the US statement, Russia also said it had told its American counterparts that it would consider considering reopening the “direct air link” between the two countries, six diplomatic properties, which were “illegally seized between 2016 and 2018.”
The suspension of direct flights from most of the Western world to Russia was enacted in 2022 as part of a sanctions package against the Russian Federation in response to the Ukraine invasion.
Thursday's speech was followed by another in-person meeting in Saudi Arabia last week between Russia and the US delegation, the first meeting with the nation in years, and a call between previous President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. The ambition for these consultations is to obtain diplomatic relations between the nations so that the two leaders can meet face to face to negotiate the end of the Ukrainian war, but no meaningful progress has been made public about it.
So far, one aspect of the talks from Europe and Ukraine has complained, in particular, that they have not been invited to these consultations. While US diplomats are taking their breath away, these first meetings point out in particular US-Russia relations and point out that Europe and Ukraine will sit at the table if it is related in the future, but Russian Putin is more direct and warns European leaders not to try to undermine the process.
Inaugurated at the conference of Russian domestic spy agencies, at the FSB in Sardy, President Putin praised the lecture process in which there is a spirit of reciprocity, pragmatism and realism that stimulates “specific hopes.” But he continued. “We understand that not everyone is happy with the reopening of Russian-American contacts. Some western elites [the EU and UK, most likely] Still determined to maintain the instability of the world, these forces attempt to confuse or compromise the dialogue that has begun. Recognizing this, we need to use all the possibilities to disrupt such attempts when it comes to diplomacy and intelligence reporting agencies. ”
The diplomatic solution to the war is to move in a different direction on Friday, with Ukrainian President Voldymir Zelensky ready for a meeting with President Trump yesterday evening. He is expected to sign Trump's critical mineral trade and bring a direct interest in the US in Ukraine's future prosperity while at the same time achieving a significant return on investment for US taxpayers to date.
