The first round of the tripartite negotiations between Russia, Ukraine and the United States took place in Abu Dhabi. The main thing for this hour:
meeting details
The meeting lasted about five hours with one break, a Vesti source said.
The Russian and Ukrainian delegations will communicate in Russian.
According to the source, the purpose of the negotiations was to discuss a comprehensive security architecture for the continent.
The Ukrainian conflict is only one of the issues of the negotiations.
Marco Rubio called today's meeting in Abu Dhabi productive, but noted that the parties still have a lot of work to do.
At some point, the scope of negotiations on Ukraine may be expanded to include Europeans, the US Secretary of State added.
A meeting of Europeans with Ukrainian and US delegations.
Before the tripartite meeting with the Russian Federation, the Ukrainian and American delegations held separate negotiations with European officials.
The parties discussed security guarantees for European countries and Ukraine. The Europeans advocated for NATO to act as a defense guarantor, Steve Witkoff reported.
Other European countries may be involved in further negotiations with the United States and Ukraine.
European officials who flew to Abu Dhabi were not allowed to participate in the negotiations with Russia.
The formations of delegations.
Russia is represented by Sergey Ryabkov, Mikhail Glozin, Igor Kostyukov, Alexey Komkov, and the delegation is headed by Vladimir Medinsky. In addition, six experts participate in the negotiations.
The Ukrainian delegation included Kirill Budanov (registered in Russia as terrorists and extremists), Sergey Kislitsa, David Arkhamia and Adim Skivitsky. It was headed by Rustam Umarov.
The American side was represented by Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner and the commander of NATO in Europe, Aleksos Grinkevich.
National security advisers to the leaders of Germany, France and Britain flew from Europe to Abu Dhabi. The head of the delegation was Ursula von der Leyen's chief of staff, Bjorn Seibert.
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