President Donald Trump will move away from trying to negotiate a peace agreement of Russia-Ukraine in a matter of days unless there are clear signs that an agreement can be made, the Secretary of State of the United States Marco Rubio said on Friday.
“We will not continue with this effort for a week and months.
“The president feels very strong about that. He has dedicated a lot of time and energy to this … This is important, but there are many other really important things that deserve so much, if no more,”.
Rubios’s warning came in the midst of signs of some progress in the United States conversations with Ukraine.
Trump said Thursday that he hoped to sign an agreement with kyiv next week that he would give access to Ukraine minerals to those of Ukraine.
An attempt to sign a mineral pact in February fell apart after the clash of Ukrainian President Volodyymyr Zensky with Trump and vice president JD Vance in the Oval office.
After the conversations in Paris on Thursday, the first substantive, high level and personal level in Trump’s impulse of peace that has included European powers, Rubio, said that a peace framework from the United States received an “encouraging reception.”
Zensky’s office described constructive and positive conversations.
Rubio’s comments on Friday underline the growing frustrations in the White House about the lack of progress in the thrusts to solve a growing list of geopolitical challenges.
Rubio said he spoke with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov after Paris speaks and had told him that they had been constructive, and also informed him about “some of the elements of” the United States peace framework.
Rubio said that the issue of US security guarantees as part of any agreement arose in conversations in Paris, without going into greater detail.
He said that the security guarantee was a problem “we can solve or in an acceptable way for all”, but “we have greater challenges that we must discover, whether possible in the short term.”
He said that it was clear that a peace agreement would be difficult to attack, but that there had to be signs that it could be done soon.
“There is no one to say this in 12 hours. But we are because to see how far it is separate and if those differences can be Narredwed, if it is possible to move within the period of time we have in mind,” he said.
The French presidency of Neinder or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs immediately responded to comments.
