{"id":26491,"date":"2025-02-18T20:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/negotiations-with-us-valuable-useful-russias-lavrov-says\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T20:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:33:12","slug":"negotiations-with-us-valuable-useful-russias-lavrov-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/negotiations-with-us-valuable-useful-russias-lavrov-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Negotiations with US \u2018valuable, useful\u2019: Russia\u2019s Lavrov says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/5304597.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>Russian and US officials spent four hours in Saudi Arabia in talks delegations described as &#8220;positive&#8221; and a &#8220;first step&#8221;, despite criticism from Ukraine and Europe over their lack of involvement.<\/p>\n<p>US and Russian officials, who met for high-stakes talks in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, agreed to &#8220;normalize&#8221; relations between the two countries and begin discussions on the war in Ukraine, the US State Department said, Euronews reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>US State Secretary Marco Rubio called the meeting &#8220;the first step of a long and difficult journey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added that concessions should be made on both sides but that it would be wrong to &#8220;predetermine those&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>US National Security Adviser Michael Waltz also said that discussion of territory and security guarantees would &#8220;underlie&#8221; any type of talks moving forward and insisted there should be an &#8220;end&#8221; to Russia&#8217;s war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>MA\/PR<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/228546\/Negotiations-with-US-valuable-useful-Russia-s-Lavrov-says\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian and US officials spent four hours in Saudi Arabia in talks delegations described as &#8220;positive&#8221; and a &#8220;first step&#8221;, despite criticism from Ukraine and Europe over their lack of involvement. US and Russian officials, who met for high-stakes talks in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, agreed to &#8220;normalize&#8221; relations between the two countries and begin &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}