Trump the Only Western Leader to Admit The Fallacy of Pulling Ukraine Into NATO- Lavrov
13:31 GMT 12.04.2025 (Updated: 15:11 GMT 12.04.2025)
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President Trump was the first and so far I think almost the only one among the Western leaders who repeatedly with conviction several times stated that it was a huge mistake to pull Ukraine into NATO”, Russia’s top diplomat explained.
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Russia and the United State are discussing bilateral relations, starting with the efforts to normalize the work of their diplomatic missions, Russian Foreign added.
"Yes, we discuss bilateral relations, starting with the normalization of the conditions in which our embassies work ... The embassy activities, issuing visas in a certain time frame, so that diplomats don't wait for years to get the visa ... And yes, we want to see what joint projects we can consider and discuss together. This was the proposal from the Americans. We never, you know, rejected proposals to cooperate," Lavrov said at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum.
There is always a potential for advancing relations between Russia and the US, Lavrov added.
"What is going on between us and the [US President Donald] Trump administration is really a very banal thing: countries talk to each other, without dictating to each other, without asking for any precondition, they just talk to each other," the Russian foreign minister said.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov added that the United States acknowledged that territorial disputes and other root causes of the Ukrainian conflict needed to be addressed during the peace process.
"They [the Americans] also mention now another thing that is related to the root causes, namely territorial issues... They recognize that territorial issues would have to be handled in the context of long-lasting settlement, and they would like to do it," Lavrov said.
