US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he would discuss the other day with colleagues from the G7 countries, which also includes Canada, Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Japan, the security structure for Europe and Ukraine, as previously mentioned by the American leader Donald Trump.
The topic of European security is raised every time there is a discussion of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, Rubio said at a press briefing, noting that he intends to discuss it with other ministers of the G7 countries in the coming days.
Trump's earlier statement about a "big deal" that could "affect not only Ukraine ... but the whole of Europe in general" turned out to be a complete surprise for Rubio's European colleagues.
"What will the post-war security system of Ukraine and, more broadly, the entire European continent look like? This is one of the key topics that has been repeatedly raised in every conversation when it comes to negotiations," Rubio stressed. — Therefore, I think that this is exactly what the president is hinting at, so that there will be some progress in the question of what this architecture should look like after the conflict. Obviously, to do this, we first need to overcome the conflict."
EADaily adds: The Washington Post newspaper, citing European officials familiar with the discussion of the initiative of the special envoy and son-in-law of US President Jared Kushner, reported that European countries are not going to negotiate with Moscow on the future security architecture on the continent before the cease-fire on Ukraine. He proposed to hold broader multilateral negotiations between Moscow and Europe on post-war security as part of a settlement on Ukraine. As a model, he considers the Russia—NATO Council, created at the end of the Cold War and suspended its work in 2014 due to the annexation of Crimea to Russia.
According to the Financial Times, European countries will send high-ranking officials to trilateral talks between Russia, the United States and Ukraine, which will be held on November 10-11 in Abu Dhabi. According to them, the summit will be attended by national security advisers of the European troika — France, Germany and the UK. The heads of the offices of the President of the European Commission and the Secretary General of NATO will also arrive there. It is planned that they will participate "in separate stages of negotiations." As the newspaper notes, European countries decided to send their representatives to Abu Dhabi after Trump and his son-in-law Kushner said that a broader European security architecture could become part of the agreement.