Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Presidential adviser Yuri Ushakov will visit Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to have an important meeting with a U.S. delegation on Tuesday.
In the U.S. delegation will be Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, and Middle East representative Steve Witkoff.
The talks are designed to provide the foundation for the much-touted summit meeting between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin that would address how to resolve the long-standing Russia-Ukraine crisis.
"At President Putin's request, Lavrov and Ushakov are flying to Riyadh today. They will meet with their American counterparts to discuss, first and foremost, restoring the full scope of the US-Russia relations," said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov while addressing a press briefing in Moscow on Monday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Presidential adviser Yuri Ushakov will visit Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to have an important meeting with a U.S. delegation on Tuesday. In the U.S. delegation will be Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, and Middle East representative Steve Witkoff. The talks are designed to provide the foundation for the much-touted summit meeting between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin that would address how to resolve the long-standing Russia-Ukraine crisis.
"I don't know what they (European officials) would do at the negotiating table. If they are going to sit at the negotiating table with the aim of continuing war, then why invite them there," Lavrov said while speaking to the media in Moscow on Monday.
Germany has expressed its dissatisfaction with being left out of the negotiation process on the Russia-Ukraine issue. Russian media cited Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova, who advised Germany to look into the reasons for being left out within its own country.
The events of the Munich Security Conference mark a definitive position by the U.S. in not letting European countries play second fiddle in ending the three-year conflict. European leaders have publicly conveyed their anger at being left out of the negotiations.
In another development, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke by telephone on Saturday, covering a range of topics, including the forthcoming meeting between President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump.
Both agreed to maintain a channel of communication to resolve the accumulated problems in US-Russian relations and "for removing unilateral barriers, inherited from the previous administration, to mutually beneficial trade, economic and investment cooperation," stated the Russian Foreign Ministry.
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