Washington, Jan 25 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has directed his negotiating team to pursue a long-term deal to prevent a recurrence of the Ukraine war, senior administration officials said following what they described as productive discussions involving Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin.Recent diplomatic engagements in Davos, Abu Dhabi, and Russia focused on resolving what they termed the remaining open issues in the conflict, including security, p…
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Washington, Jan 22 (IANS) Jared Kushner on Thursday unveiled a Trump-backed plan for Gaza that calls for an immediate surge in humanitarian aid, strict demilitarisation, and a sweeping reconstruction and economic revival, presenting the proposal at a Board of Peace signing ceremony during the World Economic Forum in Davos. The initiative is linked to President Donald J. Trump’s 20-point peace plan and United Nations Security Council Resolution 2803. It outlines a transition from a two-year war…
Moscow, Jan 22 (IANS) Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that he will meet US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and entrepreneur Jared Kushner later on Thursday, local media reported. In his remarks at a meeting with the permanent members of the Russian Security Council, Putin said that he plans to meet the US representatives following his meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Russia’s leading news agency Tass reported.Putin announced that Witkoff and K…
Moscow, Jan 15 (IANS) The Kremlin said Thursday that it is necessary and important to continue its dialogue with the United States on Ukraine. Commenting on the possible visit of US presidential special envoy Steve Witkoff and entrepreneur Jared Kushner to Russia, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Russia expects such a visit to take place as soon as the dates are agreed upon.Peskov said Moscow agrees with US President Donald Trump’s comment that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is ho…
Washington, Dec 30 (IANS) US President Donald Trump said Hamas had been given a “very short period of time” to disarm, warning that failure to do so would bring severe consequences, as he appeared alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a joint press conference in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.“Well, we talked about Hamas and we talked about disarmament and they’re going to be given a very short period of time to disarm,” Trump said. “And we’ll see how that works out.”Trump said…
New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS) While United States President Donald Trump appears non-committal in backing Ukraine’s 20-point peace plan until Sunday’s discussion with President Volodymyr Zelensky, Russia has termed it “radically different” from the one it was working on with Washington. Commenting on Zelensky’s 20-point initiative, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov remarked, “the plan – if it can even be called as such – is radically different… from the 27-point (pro…
Kyiv, Dec 21 (IANS) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that he generally supports the idea of a trilateral meeting involving the national security advisors of Ukraine, the United States and Russia, expressing cautious optimism about the prospect of such a meeting.Zelensky said the proposal was put forward by the United States and conveyed to him by Ukraine’s chief peace negotiator, Rustem Umerov, Xinhua news agency reported quoting the Interfax-Ukraine news agency.Zelensky said that he …