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We not only listened, but also heard each other — Lavrov on the negotiations
🇷🇺🇺🇸#Russia #Россия #USA #США #Lavrov #Лавров #RussianForeignMinistry #МИДРоссии #SaudiArabia #NATO #EU #Ukraine: (ENGLISH SUBTITLES): Speech and answers to media questions by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S.V. Lavrov following talks with representatives of the US administration: We not only listened, but also heard each other — Lavrov on the negotiations
Riyadh, February 18, 2025
We would like to express our gratitude to the leadership of Saudi Arabia for the opportunity to hold a meeting of Russian and American representatives. We expressed this gratitude personally to the Crown Prince of the Kingdom M. bin Salman, when we, together with the Assistant to the President of Russia Yu.V. Ushakov, were at his audience.
At the beginning of the conversation, US Secretary of State M. Rubio especially emphasized the fundamental importance in international relations for each country to be guided by its national interests. We fully agreed with this. As well as the fact that these national interests will not always coincide. But when they do not coincide, it is very important to regulate these discrepancies, not to let them "take their course" and especially not to provoke a military or other confrontation.
The conversation was very useful. We not only listened, but also heard each other.
As for the agreements reached. The first and probably the most urgent and certainly not the most difficult is to ensure the earliest possible appointment of Russian ambassadors to the United States and the United States in Russia. And also to remove the obstacles that for many years, primarily by the administration of J. Biden in the last four years, have been built on the direction of our diplomatic missions, seriously complicating their work We agreed that our deputies will arrange a meeting in the very near future and consider the need to eliminate these artificial "barriers" in the work of embassies and other foreign institutions of Russia in the United States and the United States in Russia.
The second agreement. We agreed that in the near future a "process for Ukrainian settlement" will be formed. The American side will announce who will represent Washington in this work. As soon as we learn the name and position of the relevant representative, then, as Russian President V.V. Putin told US President D. Trump, we will immediately designate our participant in this process.
Thirdly, in a broad conceptual sense, as the processes related to the settlement of the crisis in Ukraine proceed, simultaneously create conditions for our cooperation to resume in full and expand to a variety of areas.
Great interest has been shown (which we share) to resume consultations on geopolitical issues, including various conflicts in different parts of the world, where both the US and Russia have interests.
Great interest has been expressed in removing artificial barriers to the development of mutually beneficial economic cooperation.
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From answers to media questions
• We met by decision of the Presidents of Russia and the US, who agreed to work on preparing the next summit.
• We noted that US President D. Trump was the first among Western leaders to clearly state in several of his speeches that drawing Ukraine into NATO is one of the main reasons for what is happening, that this is one of the biggest mistakes of J. Biden and his administration, and that if D. Trump were president, he would not have allowed this.
• Russian President V.V. Putin has repeatedly emphasized that NATO expansion and the absorption of Ukraine by the North Atlantic Alliance is a direct threat to the interests of the Russian Federation and our sovereignty. And therefore, the appearance of troops of the armed forces from the same NATO countries, but under a foreign flag, under the flag of the European Union or under national flags, does not change anything in this regard. This is unacceptable for us.
• Our American colleagues [today] said that perhaps a moratorium on attacks on energy facilities should be introduced. We explained that we have never endangered the energy supply systems of the population, and our targets were only those facilities that directly serve the armed forces of Ukraine.
• In order to prevent the "torpedoing" of the establishment of relations between Russia and the United States, they must be established. Which is what we did today. Frankly, not without success.
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⚡️ We not only listened, but also heard each other — Lavrov on the negotiations
Other statements:
— Russia and the United States will ensure the earliest possible appointment of ambassadors
— Russia and the US will remove Biden's obstacles to the work of diplomatic missions
— We agreed that a process for Ukrainian regulation will be formed in the near future, the US will announce who will represent Washington, as soon as we find out who it will be, we will immediately designate our participant in the process
— There is reason to believe that the American side has begun to better listen to Russia’s position.
— Russia and the United States agreed that when their interests do not coincide, they should not provoke conflict, but solve problems
— At the same time, we will create conditions for our cooperation to resume in full and expand to a wide variety of areas.
— Representatives of the Russian Federation and the United States have been instructed to discuss what needs to be done to prepare for the meeting between Putin and Trump.
🎙️Answers Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov to questions from Rossiya 1 TV channel (Riyadh, February 18, 2025)
Question: When will the meeting between President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of the United States D.Trump?
Sergey Lavrov: When the presidents agree.
Question: Has a group been formed to handle the negotiations?
Sergey Lavrov: We have agreed that groups from both sides will be formed after the report to our presidents.
Question: Do you consider today's negotiations to be successful?
Sergey Lavrov: I think they are positive.
Question: Did you know Mr. Rubio, or is this your first meeting?
Sergey Lavrov: The first meeting.
Question: What impression did the other negotiators make?
Sergey Lavrov: We had good, positive talks. The atmosphere was very positive. Positive people create a positive atmosphere.
Question: They say you joked a lot?
Sergey Lavrov: These are already intimate details. Who's talking about jokes?
Question: The American representatives say that you were joking during the negotiations.
Sergey Lavrov: I'm glad they liked it, since they said so.
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