Washington set to hold separate talks with Russia and Ukraine in Riyadh

Anadolu Agency

Ukraine will send a delegation to Riyadh on the same day the U.S. is holding ceasefire negotiations there with a Russian delegation. President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy aide, Yuri Ushakov, confirmed that the U.S.-Russia talks are scheduled for Monday in Riyadh.

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said the delegation would meet with US representatives and supply a list of energy infrastructure that would be off-limits for strikes by the Russian military. After talks with Ukranian team, the US representatives would meet the Russian negotiating team, - Zelenskyy said on Thursday.

The talks will be "mainly to study the prospects for the possible implementation of a well-known initiative related to the safety of navigation in the Black Sea," Ushakov said in a statement. He confirmed that it was discussed with U.S. National Security Adviser Mike Waltz at the phone conversation following the last Trump-Putin talks.

Ushakov said that the talks in Riyadh on 24th March will be bilateral.

Russia will be represented by Grigory Karasin, a former diplomat who is now chair of the Federation Council's Foreign Affairs Committee, and Sergei Beseda, an adviser to the director of the Federal Security Service (FSB).


 

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