Washington: US President Donald Trump said it is to Russia’s “benefit” to make a deal and end the war against Ukraine and he thinks President Vladimir Putin does want to make a deal. Addressing a joint news conference with him, France’s Emmanuel Macron stressed the importance of security guarantees in any negotiated agreement to end the war.
The two leaders met at the White House on the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Earlier in the day, the United States broke with its European allies to vote against a resolution at the UN General Assembly condemning Russia as the aggressor.
“It’s very much to Russia’s benefit to make a deal, and I feel that we’ll do that,” President Trump said at the joint news conference, responding to a question about whether he trusted President Vladimir Putin. There is tremendous distrust on both sides. “
President Trump said one of the first phone calls he had after starting his second term was to President Putin, who he believed, is ready to make a deal. He repeated that it is to the “ benefit of Russia to make a deal and (for President Putin) to go on with leading Russia in a very positive way”.
The American president also said he is looking forward to signing a deal with Ukraine that will give the US rights to rare earth minerals in return for the billions of dollars in security assistance it has received to defend itself from Russia. (IANS)
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