The U.S. administration expects that some progress will be made at the upcoming trilateral talks on Ukraine in Abu Dhabi, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said before flying to Paris for a G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting.
"And maybe some progress can be made in Abu Dhabi tomorrow when [the US president’s special envoys] Jared [Kushner] and Steve [Witkoff] will be there. I think they’re on their way right now," Rubio said.
According to him, security guarantees would be the key topic of the talks in Abu Dhabi.
"The entirety of the time we’ve been talking about Russia-Ukraine, the one thing that’s repeatedly come up is the need for security guarantees - what is the post-war security infrastructure of Ukraine and, more broadly, of the European continent going to look like? And it’s one of the key topics that’s been raised repeatedly in every conversation any time negotiations have been discussed," Rubio said.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with Witkoff that Moscow is ready to revive trilateral talks toward resolving the Ukraine conflict. The trilateral meeting will take place in Abu Dhabi on November 10-11, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced. Presidential Aide Vladimir Medinsky will lead the Russian delegation.
