The US administration hopes that the negotiating process on settling the Ukrainian crisis will not continue for months or years, US State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce said, APA reports citing TASS.
"There is a commitment to not have this go on for months, or to have meetings about meetings. It's not going to go on for a year. The President [of the US Donald Trump] and the Secretary [of State Marco Rubio] want an accomplishment and a deadline. They know what can be accomplished," she said.
In her words, she doesn’t think that the timeframe for the Ukrainian settlement set by President Trump is expiring. "Sometimes, remarkably, in negotiations, you have some progress, and then things move forward right then you actually can make a difference. And you're you're somewhat flexible and being able to make it work. So I think that it is has to be taken within that, that framework," she noted, adding that the United States did not send a delegation to the Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul.
"As the President has said, and as the Secretary has noted as well, this has now got to be between the parties," she stressed. "We, of course, have said repeatedly there's no military solution to this conflict, and the President supports, though, any mechanism that leads to a just, durable and lasting peace, any mechanism."
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