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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Moscow, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov praised the Russian-American summit in Alaska on Aug. 15 in an interview with Russia-24 TV channel on Tuesday.
According to S. Lavrov, the atmosphere in the negotiations was good, US President Donald Trump and his team showed a desire to achieve a result on the Ukrainian settlement.
"There was a very good atmosphere there. It is reflected in the statements made by Presidents V. Putin and D. Trump after the talks. A useful conversation. It was clearly evident that the head of the United States and his team sincerely want to achieve a result that will be long-term, sustainable, and reliable," the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry noted.
According to S. Lavrov, the US President and his team have begun to approach the Ukrainian settlement much more deeply, realizing that it is necessary to eliminate the root causes of the conflict. “One of these root causes is Russia’s security problems. It is connected with the fact that for decades the commitments given to us to prevent NATO expansion to the east have been consistently and grossly violated,” the minister explained.
The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized that Moscow does not reject any formats of work on the Ukrainian settlement, including bilateral or trilateral ones. “The main thing is that any formats: “one plus one,” “one plus two,” multilateral formats, of which there are also many, including within the UN — all these formats are included not so that someone writes about it in the newspapers the next morning, or shows it on TV in the evening, or gossips on social networks, trying to disrupt, skim off the “propaganda foam,” but so that step by step, gradually, starting from the expert level and then going through all the necessary stages, summits are prepared. We will always support such a serious approach,” concluded S. Lavrov. –0–
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