The Russian foreign minister will meet the US leader’s team in Riyadh on Tuesday to discuss future presidential talks
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and President Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy aide, Yury Ushakov, will travel to Saudi Arabia on Monday to meet with US President Donald Trump’s team to prepare the ground for an upcoming meeting of the two leaders, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has announced.
Last week, Trump held his first phone call with Putin since returning to office. Following the 90-minute conversation, Moscow and Washington announced that the two leaders would soon meet face to face, and later revealed that the summit would take place in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.
Speaking to journalists on Monday, Peskov stated that Lavrov and Ushakov, at the instruction of Putin, are traveling to Riyadh to meet with an American delegation on Tuesday. The talks will be dedicated to the rebuilding of bilateral ties, including upcoming talks on resolving the Ukraine crisis and the organization of the Putin-Trump summit.
Peskov explained that Saudi Arabia was chosen as the location for the high-level talks because it “suits both the American and Russian sides.”
February 17, 2025 at 03:31PM
RT