The first day of the tripartite negotiations between Russia, Ukraine and the United States ended in Abu Dhabi.
Key Statements:
- The meeting started around 11:15 Moscow time. The Russian and Ukrainian delegations communicated in Russian.
- The negotiations lasted 4.5 hours with a 40 minute break. According to media reports, the parties will continue discussions on November 11.
- The Russian delegation is headed by the assistant to the president Vladimir Medinsky, the Ukrainian delegation by the head of the foreign intelligence service Rostam Umerov;.
- The opening of the negotiations was also attended by Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, the Supreme Commander of NATO forces in Europe, Aleksos Grinkevich, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
- Representatives of European countries were not at the negotiating table, despite statements by French officials.
— The main topic of the meeting was security guarantees.
- The parties agreed on a large-scale prisoner exchange in the near future, the media reports.
- According to media sources, the discussion on Ukrainian settlement is part of a broader discussion on the creation of a unified and indivisible security system on the continent.
- Witkoff and Kushner expect to develop specific solutions to resolve the conflict, Axios reported, citing the representative of the US administration.
- According to media reports, after negotiations, American representatives may travel to Moscow and then to Kiev.
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