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Shafaq News
5 days ago
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- Shafaq News
Lavrov: Russia to state clear position at Alaska summit
Shafaq News – Alaska Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov affirmed that Moscow will present its stance unequivocally during the summit between President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump, taking place in Alaska on Friday. 'We have a clear and understandable position, and we will present it,' Lavrov told Russia's state broadcaster, Russia 24. 'We have made significant efforts to explain Russia's position during the visits of US envoy Witkoff to Russia, and we hope to continue this constructive dialogue.' Lavrov and Russian Ambassador to Washington Aleksandr Dartchev arrived in Alaska earlier, ahead of the high-level meeting. The Kremlin and the White House had confirmed that Putin and Trump would meet on August 15, beginning with closed-door talks followed by an expanded session including senior officials from both sides. While discussions will center on the war in Ukraine and the broader state of US-Russia relations, Putin and Trump are expected to deliver brief remarks ahead of the talks and hold a joint press conference afterward. The meeting will be held at Elmendorf Air Force Base, a major US military installation in Alaska that has played a key role in monitoring Russian activity. Earlier, Trump declared that Putin 'won't be able to mess with me,' stressing that any Ukraine-related agreement would only be reached during a later trilateral meeting involving Kyiv. 'I'll know within the first two, three, four, five minutes whether our meeting is going to be good or bad,' he said, adding that, 'If it's bad, it will end very quickly. If it's good, we could be on the path to peace soon.' The Kremlin stated that there are no plans to sign any agreements after the summit, warning against making predictions about the outcome of the talks. The summit marks his first visit to a Western country since the war in Ukraine began in 2022, Putin welcomed US efforts to help resolve the conflict and expressed hope that the talks could pave the way for an agreement on nuclear arms control as part of broader steps toward peace.
NBC News
12-08-2025
- Politics
- NBC News
Russians hail historic Alaska ties ahead of Trump-Putin Ukraine summit
The choice of Alaska — a territory the United States purchased from the Russian Empire 158 years ago — for talks between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin is being seen as symbolic by some Russian commentators who are framing it as a nod to historic ties and a chance for closer relations in future. It appears that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has not been invited to the summit about the war in his homeland and representatives from Europe have also been excluded, fueling Kyiv's worst fears that its future might be decided without its input. But Moscow's media and political elite have praised the choice of venue framing it as a reminder that the U.S. and Russia are geographically close to one another and suggesting it could strengthen relations between the two nations. 'Russia and the United States are close neighbors, bordering each other,' Putin's aide on foreign affairs, Yuri Ushakov, said on Telegram last week. Russia's former ambassador to the U.S. added that it seemed 'quite logical for our delegation to simply fly across the Bering Strait and for such an important and anticipated summit of the leaders of the two countries to be held specifically in Alaska.' Russian Senator Vladimir Dzhabarov also called the location 'very wise,' in an interview on Tuesday with the state-owned news channel Russia24. He added that it was 'very far from Ukraine,' which is around 5,000 miles away of Alaska and 'very far from, unfortunately, Europe, which is now largely hostile to us.' Russian commentators also praised the choice of Alaska. Among them is Alexander Bobrov, who in an editorial for the state-controlled Russian broadcaster RT on Monday, wrote the summit was 'more than just a meeting between two leaders,' and a 'return to the logic of direct dialogue without intermediaries.' The summit in Alaska — where Russian Orthodox churches still dot the landscape and place names like Nikolaevsk and Voznesensk speak to their shared history — could help build ties across the Bering Strait, which separates the two countries, Bobrov said. 'Alaska's story began as Russian, continued as American — and now has the chance to become a shared chapter, if both sides choose to see it as an opportunity rather than a threat,' he added, referring to Russia's sale of Alaska to the U.S. in 1867 for $7.2 million to avoid losing the territory to Britain and to raise funds. The White House did not immediately respond to NBC News' request for comment about Russian praise for Alaska. While the state invokes an historic cooperation between the two nations, Ukraine and Europe have urged both superpowers to include Kyiv in any discussions to end the war. Ukraine's Zelenskyy said Saturday that any decisions taken without Ukraine were 'decisions against peace,' adding, 'They will not achieve anything.' Asked Monday if the Ukrainian president was invited to the Alaska summit Trump said Zelenskyy 'wasn't a part of it' and while he had participated in numerous meetings during the course of the war, little had come of them. 'I would say he could go, but he's gone to a lot of meetings. You know, he's been there for three and a half years — nothing happened,' Trump added. European leaders meanwhile, are set to hold a videoconference on Wednesday to to coordinate negotiations to end the war ahead of a separate call with Trump and Vice President JD Vance, a spokesperson for the German government told Reuters on Tuesday. Sidelined from the Trump-Putin tete-a-tete, a joint statement by European Union leaders on Sunday welcomed Trump's efforts 'towards ending Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine,' but stressed that 'a path to peace in Ukraine cannot be decided without Ukraine.' Promises of talks between Trump and Putin have done little to quiet the violence on the ground since their announcement. The Kremlin's larger army is slowly advancing deeper into Ukraine at a great cost in troops while it relentlessly bombards Ukrainian cities. Overnight into Tuesday, Russian drone strikes killed two civilians and injured 13 more across multiple Ukrainian regions, officials in the country said.
Saba Yemen
28-06-2025
- Politics
- Saba Yemen
Iranian Ambassador to Russia: We will continue our peaceful nuclear program
Tehran – Saba: The Iranian Ambassador to Russia, Kazem Jalali, affirmed on Saturday that Iran will continue its peaceful nuclear program. In an interview with "Russia 24" channel, Jalali stated: "We do not seek to possess a nuclear bomb, but we cannot deprive our future generations of peaceful nuclear technology. Nuclear knowledge cannot be bombed away." He added: "We were deceived after reaching an agreement with the Americans to continue negotiations. Talks were supposed to take place in Muscat on Sunday (two days after the Israeli aggression began). Unfortunately, Israel attacked us in the early hours of Friday. This aggression shows that the United States and Israel were coordinating and executing this plan." Jalali continued: "However, the Iranian armed forces and our people were fully prepared to defend themselves, as we had already been threatened by the Zionist entity. This regime has been threatening us for the past year." Whatsapp Telegram Email Print
Russia Today
10-02-2025
- Politics
- Russia Today
Xi to attend Moscow's Victory Day celebrations
Chinese President Xi Jinping has accepted an invitation to attend celebrations in Russia marking the 80th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany this May, according to Moscow's envoy to Beijing, Igor Morgulov. Xi has also invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit China for its own World War II celebrations in early September, Morgulov told the Russia 24 news channel. The victory over Nazi Germany in 1945 is regarded by Russia as a great feat of national resolve, as the USSR lost an estimated 26.6 million lives in World War II. Moscow has invited 'friendly nations' to join in this year's celebrations. China and Russia share what they call a no-limits partnership, which underscores that Western efforts to isolate Russia over the Ukraine conflict have largely failed. 'Xi Jinping has accepted an invitation to participate in the celebrations on May 9 in Moscow… and has invited Vladimir Putin to China for the events scheduled in early September,' Morgulov said in a preview of the interview released on Monday. Read more Russia's exclusion from Auschwitz events 'shameful' – Putin While Imperial Japan continued fighting after the defeat of its Nazi German ally, it capitulated following the USSR's declaration of war and the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. China, which lost some 20 million people fighting the Japanese occupation, commemorates the end of the war on September 3. Several foreign leaders have already confirmed their attendance at the May 9 celebrations in Moscow, including Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. Notably, Fico has defied his nation's allies in the EU and NATO, citing a historical debt of gratitude to the Red Army that he said supersedes the ongoing Western confrontation with Russia. Last month, Newsweek claimed that the Russian government anticipated a 'big guest' from the US during the Victory Day celebrations, hinting at a potential shift in relations under President Donald Trump. Trump has called for a swift resolution of the Ukraine conflict and claims he has directly engaged Putin to advance this objective. The Kremlin has neither confirmed nor denied Trump's assertions, merely acknowledging that dialogue with Washington has intensified on various levels since his inauguration.
