The Russian delegation arrived at the US consulate in Istanbul, Turkey on Thursday morning for further consultations to normalize diplomatic contacts between the two states as part of the process of working towards the Ukrainian peace deal.
The blackened minibuses carrying Russian diplomats were recognized Thursday morning through the gates of the US Consul General's residence in Istanbul, Turkey. The US and Russia today discuss the ongoing process of normalizing diplomatic relations between nations.
A Kremlin spokesman said of the consultations on Thursday morning: “A meeting at the expert level in Istanbul is currently underway, and our diplomats continue the understanding that they reached in a telephone conversation between the two presidents and the two presidents who reached in Riyadh. Let's not move ahead of us. Details of the results of the lecture will be available in some way.”
Update 1330 GMT: Putin says progress in consultations “causing certain hopes”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has abandoned a bit of a happy story as debates continued in Istanbul on Thursday, the Kremlin media claims. The State Wires Service Tass relates to what he told the FSB at a meeting of Russian domestic spies and security agencies.
We all see how rapidly the world is changing, and how things are happening in the world. In this regard, I would like to note that initial contact with the new US administration stimulates certain hopes. There is dedication to restoring interstate relations and gradually solving the vast, systematic and strategic issues that have gradually accumulated.
It was these issues that sparked the Ukrainian war in the first place, he argued that he properly avoided his own decision to actually infiltrate in 2022.
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Russia has announced several times that it will review how the remaining consultations progress based on the results of the conference will progress. One important future point of this process is the Principals' meeting, a face-to-face discussion between President Trump and Russian President Putin, to hold final negotiations and reach an agreement.
Both sides say they are open to the event, but ahead of today's talk, Washington said plans for the meeting have not yet been set on stone. White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt He told Fox News There was nothing in the book yet, but Steve Witkoff and the Secretary [Marco] Rubio and our national security adviser Mike Waltz were the entire presidential delegation tasked with ending the conflict, and continued to work with the Russians, just as much as the Ukrainians.
Otherwise, most of the information on the scope of future relationships this week comes from more chatty Kremlin spokesmen than American counterparts. Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for President Vladimir Putin, spokesman, spoke about the potential trade between Russia and the United States in a comment intended to encourage the Russian angle in Ukraine Ux La Rare Earth's key mineral trade.
He said in the Kremlin on Thursday morning Putin “seems “there is plenty of room for potential cooperation between Russian and American businesses. Such rooms are in place and corporate interest exists. However, there is no detailed discussion that is still taking place.”
The names of those participating in today's consultations have not been made public by either participating country, but the meeting will be held at the official residence of the US Consul General in Istanbul.
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