Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov denied U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s statement that no agreement had been reached at the meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Anchorage.
According to Lavrov, the American side presented proposals for ending the war, and Putin agreed to them.
“Already in Anchorage, when the two presidents sat down for talks—Marco Rubio and your humble servant were also there—Russian President Vladimir Putin, looking at Steve Witkoff, who was also present, began listing the American proposals point by point. After each point, in the presence of U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, he asked Steve Witkoff whether he had correctly noted the ideas Witkoff had brought to Moscow on the eve of Anchorage,” Lavrov said.
According to him, Witkoff answered each question in the affirmative.
“So when my colleague Marco Rubio says that there were only proposals in Alaska and no agreement, it raises a question for me in terms of what we mean by an agreement. If one side, in this case the United States, put its proposals for a settlement on the table—on how to approach this crisis—and the other side expressed agreement with those proposals, then saying that there was no agreement somehow comes across as not very elegant,” the Russian foreign minister said.
Lavrov said that “the fact remains”: the U.S. proposals were discussed in Alaska and, according to him, accepted by the Russian side.
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