State Department: Rubio repeated the call from Lavrov to Trump to negotiations in Ukraine
The United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, appealed Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, repeating him for the call of US President Donald Trump for direct negotiations in Ukraine. The details of the telephone conversation occur in the state department statement.
“The Rubio Secretary of State repeated the call of President Trump to continue direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine to achieve a long -term world,” the report said.
Lavrov and Rubio also discussed the initiatives to the political settlement of the Ukrainian crisis. In particular, it was the resumption of Russian-Ukrainian direct negotiations in Istanbul on June 2, reports the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia.
Previously, the United States Secretary of State expressed the condolences of Lavrov in relation to victims of detonations of the railway infrastructure in the regions of Bryansk and Kursk.