Kyiv, Feb 15 (IANS) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in Munich, Germany that Ukraine is ready for an agreement that will bring real peace, the Ukrinform news agency reported.”Ukraine is ready for an agreement that will bring real peace to us, to Ukraine, to Europe,” he said during a speech at the Munich Security Conference, adding that the crisis can be ended, first of all, with dignity. “This is the most important thing for us,” Zelensky said.According to him, Europe is practically n…
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Moscow, Feb 12 (IANS) Russia will not attend the first meeting of the US-led Board of Peace, the country’s Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday. In response to a question during a news briefing on Thursday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova stated, “Russia will not take part in the [upcoming] Board of Peace meeting.”Zakharova added that “work to formulate” Russia’s position on the Board of Peace is ongoing, the country’s leading news agency Tass reported.The foreign ministr…
Moscow, Feb 11 (IANS) Russia is ready to seek a negotiated solution to the Ukraine crisis based on understandings reached by the leaders of Russia and the United States, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.He said Russia remains fully committed to the outcomes of the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump held in the US city of Anchorage, Alaska in August last year, and noted that Moscow expects its interests to be fully taken into account in the p…
Moscow, Feb 5 (IANS) The Russian Foreign Ministry has said that it assumes parties to the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) between Russia and the United States are no longer bound by any obligations in the context of the deal.The ministry on Wednesday said Russia had received no formalised official response from the United States to the Russian initiative on extending voluntary restraint on nuclear arms ceilings beyond the treaty’s expiration on February 5.”In the current circumst…
Washington, Feb 4 (IANS) President Donald Trump has said that the United States is negotiating with Iran and indicated the talks involve more than one meeting, while also saying he wants Russia’s Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine.Asked at a White House event on Tuesday (local time) whether negotiations with Iran were happening this week, Trump replied, “Yeah.”Pressed on where the meetings would be held and what the US needed to hear from Iran, he said: “They’re all over, but the…
Washington, Feb 1 (IANS) US President Donald Trump said that Iran is negotiating with the United States.”The plan is that (Iran is) talking to us, and we’ll see if we can do something. Otherwise, we’ll see what happens,” Trump told a Fox News correspondent.He added that “the last time they negotiated, we had to take out their nuclear. It didn’t work, you know. Then we took it out a different way, and we’ll see what happens.””We have a big fleet heading out there, bigger than we had — and still …
Cairo, Feb 1 (IANS) A senior Iranian security official said that a structure for talks with the United States is being set up.”The formation of a structure for negotiations is progressing,” Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani wrote on social media platform X, without elaborating.Larijani’s remarks followed his meeting on Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, which focused on economic cooperation and significant regional and international issues, X…
Washington, Jan 30 (IANS) US President Donald Trump said that Russia agreed not to fire on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities for a week during extreme cold, as his envoy described what he called new momentum in talks since Geneva.Trump asked special envoy Steve Witkoff to brief his Cabinet colleagues on the diplomatic track. Witkoff said, “The Ukrainians actually said that we’ve made more progress in the last — since Geneva than they’ve seen in the last four years of that conflict.”Witkof…
Washington, Jan 28 (IANS) In a forceful message on global leadership and diplomacy, singer and actress Mary Millben lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s handling of US-India tensions and urged Washington to “pivot” its approach, saying dignity and strategic restraint had elevated PM Modi’s standing on the world stage.While reaffirming that President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Modi share a personal rapport, Millben said “true friendship always admits wrongdoing or, in this case, w…
Moscow, Jan 27 (IANS) Russian President Vladimir Putin sent heartfelt greetings to President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on India’s 77th Republic Day, underscoring India’s esteemed position among the leading world powers and its considerable standing in the international arena.“The achievements of your country in the social, economic, scientific and technical fields are universally recognised. India rightfully occupies its place among the leading world powers and has ea…