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The US
state department said Marco Rubio issued the same warning in a phone call on
Friday with Nato secretary general Mark Rutte, telling him that “if a clear
path to peace does not emerge soon, the United States will step back from
efforts to broker peace.”
Donald
Trump said “Marco is right” that the dynamic of the negotiations between
Ukraine and Russia must change, but stopped short of saying he is ready to walk
away. “Well, I don’t want to say that,” Trump said. “But we want to see it
end.”
The
Associate Press (AP) reports that Rubio’s comments stepped up pressure on both
sides to reach a peace deal, even as the US and Ukraine made progress on a
minerals agreement that Trump has sought to recoup billions of dollars in
military assistance that Washington has sent Kyiv since Russia’s full scale
invasion in February 2022.
They also
indicated the road to a complete truce will be long and mired with contention,
despite Trump repeatedly claiming on the campaign trail that he could end the
war within a day. Trump said last month that he was “being a little bit
sarcastic.”
Coming
out of the Paris talks, the US are ready to use carrot and stick strategies
with Russia and understand the need for ″a relationship of force that allows
them to get commitments from both sides,” a French diplomatic official, who
took part in the talks but was not authorised to comment publicly, told the AP.
The
Americans and Europeans discussed sanctions but ″not the question of easing
sanctions” on Russia. The official told the AP that the European Union needs to
use ″all instruments at our disposition,” notably to have levers of influence
over the Russians to ensure they commit to eventual promises.
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