The leaders of American and Russian diplomaties will again try to diplomatically the larva conflict in Ukraine. In its opening, the chief of Russian diplomacy was more than reserved.
Le Monde with AFP
The leaders of the American and Russian diplomats found themselves, Friday, January 21, in Geneva in search of a solution on Ukraine, at the gates of which the Russian army camps, ignoring Western warnings. The meeting between Sergei Lavrov and Antony Blinken started at the end of the morning in a Geneva Palace.
“We are not expecting a breakthrough” in these discussions, “said Lavrov during his remarks. In response, the US diplomat assured that the United States continued to seek a diplomatic solution to the crisis, also promising a “united, fast and severe” answer in case of invasion of Ukraine.
This meeting is the last step of two of an intense diplomatic ballet that started with two conversations between the presidents Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden in December. For Washington, the prospect of a Russian military incursion in Ukraine is increasingly likely, tens of thousands of soldiers have been deployed for weeks at the Russian-Ukrainian border. The Kremlin denies, he, all bellicism but he conditions a de-escalation to treaties guaranteeing the non-enlargement of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and a de facto retirement of the latter in Eastern Europe . An unacceptable condition for Westerners.