Patience is needed in the US effort to negotiate peace between Russia and Ukraine, but “we don’t have time to waste,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said today, warning Moscow not to deliver an unrealistic ceasefire proposal, APA reports citing CNN.
“Are they tapping us along? That’s what we’re trying to find out. We’ll find out pretty soon,” Rubio said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
“They agreed they’re going to exchange paper on ideas that get to a ceasefire. If those papers have ideas on them that are “realistic and rational, then I think we know we’ve made progress,” Rubio said, after Russian and Ukrainian delegations met in Turkey on Friday. “If those papers, on the other hand, have requirements in them that we know are unrealistic, then we’ll have a different assessment.”
“There’s some element of patience that is required. On the other hand, we don’t have time to waste, so we don’t want to be involved in this process of just endless talks,” Rubio added.
The secretary of state expressed optimism that President Donald Trump’s plan to speak directly by phone tomorrow with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin could break the “logjam.”
Rubio wouldn’t say if an in-person meeting is being planned just yet, but emphasized that Trump has offered.
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