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President Donald TrumpThe skill as a negotiator will help determine if Russian President Vladimir Putin takes negotiations seriously to end the war in Ukraine, Secretary of State Framework Rubio said on Sunday.
Rubio appeared in “Face the Nation” of CBS, where host Margaret Brennan asked him if he could trust that the possible negotiations with Russia would be direct taking into account how Putin “likes to use diplomacy as a cover to distract while continuing to fight The war “.
“I don’t think that in geopolitics someone trusts anyone,” Rubio replied. “I think these things have to be verified through actions. I said yesterday that peace is not a noun, it is a verb. It is an action. You have to take concrete steps towards it.”
Rubio added that “there is no better negotiator in American politics” than Trump, saying that the president “will know very quickly if this is something real or if this is an effort to buy time.”
The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said Sunday that he believes that Trump is the best political negotiator in the United States. (Mark Schiefelbein/Pool AP/AFP through Getty Images, Archive)
“But I don’t want to prejudge that,” Rubio said. “I do not want to execute the opportunity to put an end to the conflict that has already cost the lives of hundreds of thousands and continue every day to be more and more a war of wear on both sides.”
Russia launched a full scale Invasion of Ukraine Almost three years ago. The fight has produced strong casualties on both sides, becoming the largest military conflict in Europe since World War II.
Trump had repeatedly said while he was in the campaign that if he was president in 2022, the war would not have exploded, promising to end if he is re -elected.
Trump spoke with Putin in a phone call on Wednesday, telling journalists that he and Putin would probably meet soon to negotiate a peace agreement on Ukraine. Later, Trump assured Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy that he would also have a seat on the table.
While some officials have indicated that European nations He would not be involved in conversations, Rubio said on Sunday that leaders reach the point of “real negotiations”, both Ukraine and Europe would be involved.
“Ultimately, it will reach a point when you are, if it is real negotiations, and we are not there yet, but if that happened, Ukraine will have to be involved, because they are the ones who were invaded, and the Europeans will have to participate Because they also have sanctions to Putin and Russia, and have contributed to this effort. “
Volodymyr Zelenskyy President of Ukraine speaks with the media during the European Council meeting on December 19, 2024 in Brussels, Belgium. (Pier Marco Water/Getty Images)
Rubio emphasized that the phone call between Trump and Putin was just a small step in the process to open a negotiation to end the war, and that “we have a long way to go.”
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“We are not there yet,” he said. “We are not really, but I hope we do it, because we would all like to see that this war ends.”
Associated Press contributed to this report.
