- The State Department SETY says that we must decide “in a matter of days.”
- “Many other really important things happen,” says Rubio.
- Trump had promised to end the war on the first day in office.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, will move away from trying to negotiate a peace agreement of Russia-Ukraine in a matter of days unless there are clear signs that an agreement can be made, the United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, Marco Rubio, said on Friday.
“We are not going to continue with this effort for weeks and months. Therefore, we must determine very quickly now, and I am talking about a matter of days if this is feasible or not in the coming weeks,” Rubio said in Paris after meeting with European and Ukrainian leaders.
“The president feels very strong about that. He has dedicated a lot of time and energy to this … This is important, but there are many other really important things that deserve so much, if not more attention.”
Rubio’s warning occurred in the midst of signs of some progress in US conversations with Ukraine.
Trump said Thursday that he hoped to sign an agreement with kyiv next week that he would give access to Ukraine minerals to those of Ukraine. An attempt to sign a mineral pact in February fell apart after the clash of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy with Trump and vice president JD Vance in the Oval office.
After the conversations in Paris on Thursday, the first substantive, high -level conversations and in person about Trump’s impulse of peace that have included European powers, Rubio said that a peace framework from the United States received an “encouraging reception.” Zelenskiy’s office called constructive and positive conversations.
Rubio’s comments on Friday underline growing frustrations in the White House due to lack of progress in the thrusts to solve a growing list of geopolitical challenges.
Trump promised during his electoral campaign to end the war in Ukraine in his first 24 hours in the White House. He moderated that claim to assume the position, suggesting an agreement for April or the obstacles may be mounted.
Rubio said he spoke with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov after Paris speaks and had told him that they had been constructive, and also informed him about “some of the elements of” the United States peace framework.
Rubio said that the issue of US security guarantees as part of any agreement arose in conversations in Paris, without going into greater detail.
He said that security guarantees were a problem “we can solve in a way that is acceptable to all”, but “we have greater challenges that we must solve, whether possible in the short term.”
He said that it was clear that a peace agreement would be difficult to attack, but that there had to be signs that it could be done soon.
“There is no one to say this in 12 hours. But we want to see how separate it is and if those differences can be reduced, if possible to move within the period of time we have in mind,” he said.
Neither the French presidency nor the Ministry of Foreign Affairs immediately responded to comments.
