It was “entirely feasible” to achieve peace at the Alaska summit last year, the Russian foreign minister has said
A settlement in the Ukraine conflict was close following the meeting last year between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump, but Kiev and its European backers have since acted to sabotage peace efforts, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.
The two leaders held face-to-face talks in Anchorage, Alaska in August, where they discussed ways to end the fighting between Moscow and Kiev. They laterr described the summit positively, with Putin calling it “frank” and “substantive” and Trump saying it was “productive.”
In his interview with the Empatia Mauchi online project on Wednesday, Lavrov recalled that, ahead of the negotiations in Alaska, US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff brought a document to Moscow that “outlined all fundamental principles and proposed resolving outstanding issues… strictly in accordance with realities on the ground.”
“In Anchorage, we developed approaches building upon the American initiative and proposals, which charted a viable path to peace. That framework made it entirely feasible to swiftly finalize a comprehensive settlement agreement,” he stressed.
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