A administration official on Tuesday told Hill’s Sister Network Newsnapping that State Secretary Marco Rubio will lead a newly constituted Joint Commission that will work on making a security guarantee proposal for Ukraine.
The Commission will be made up of the US, Ukrainian, European and NATO officials.
The agreement for the Commission came on Monday during the White House meeting between President Trump and seven European leaders visiting Washington.
Rubio’s news as the head of the Commission was first reported by Wall Street Journal. Shop Informed On Monday night that Ukraine’s security assurances will be made of four parts: air defense, keeping an eye on the end of a military appearance, fighting and arms, citing European officials familiar to the matter.
Rubio, who is also Trump’s National Security Advisor, was one of the three American officials participate One in Closed door meeting On Friday in Alaska, with the Russian delegation, led by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Trump spoke to Putin on phone on Monday meeting With Ukrainian President Volodimier Zelanski and European leaders at the White House. When the President spoke with the Kremlin leader, neither Zelanski nor European officials were in the room.
Trump told Fox News’s “Fox and Friends” on Tuesday, “I didn’t do this in front of him – I felt that President Putin would be derogatory. I would not do so, because he did not have the hottest relationship.”
The call lasted for about 40 minutes, the President told Putin that the administration would set up a meeting between the Kremlin leader and the Zelanski, which is still Russia. Refused to commit To. Russian External Affairs Minister Sergei Lavarov is not interacting with Kremlin Ukraine and said that Trump is an invitation to come to Moscow.
Trump, who has pressured to help end the Russia-Ukraine war, which has been furious for almost three and a half years, Ongoing Providing air aid for kiev as part of safety guarantee on Tuesday.
“We are ready to help them with things, in particular, perhaps, if you talk to the wind because we do not have any goods,” the President Said,
Russian foreign minister Wags NATO leaders said against calling NATO to Ukraine as part of a peace deal.
