Moscow has \u201cfully accepted\u201d the US peace proposal put forward at the Anchorage summit, yet Europe derailed the process, Russia\u2019s top diplomat has said<\/p>\n
The US gave in to pressure from the EU, which has openly gloated about undermining the Anchorage understandings and declared them \u201cburied,\u201d Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.
\nThe top diplomat made the remarks on Wednesday while speaking at a press conference following a ministerial meeting of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
\nLavrov reiterated Moscow\u2019s position that the Anchorage initiative was ultimately derailed by European nations.
\n\u201dOur conscience is clear, not to mention the fact that we fully accepted the United States\u2019 proposal last August, which was made during the summit\u2026 in Alaska,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n
It is not our fault that the Americans could not withstand the unprecedented and brazen pressure from Europe, which later proudly declared that it had buried Anchorage.<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump hosted his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, last year, with the two leaders reaching an understanding on how the Ukraine conflict could be settled. While Moscow has portrayed the outcome of the summit as an \u201cagreement,\u201d despite some \u201cnuances\u201d remaining, Washington has repeatedly disputed that characterization. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio previously said that there was \u201ca proposal in Alaska, but there was no agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n
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According to Lavrov, the Anchorage understandings were ultimately undermined over the following months by EU and British leaders. During the G7 summit in Evian in June, French President Emmanuel Macron openly declared that Anchorage had been \u201cburied.\u201d
\nWhile the US has displayed a declining commitment to the \u201cunderstandings,\u201d Trump has never explicitly declared the framework dead. Last month, Washington attempted to revive negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, but the process stalled once again amid continued long-range strikes by Moscow and Kiev. According to Lavrov, Russia agreed to a Washington-proposed trilateral meeting with Ukraine, which was expected to be held after the recent Russian parliamentary elections. Kiev, however, actively attempted to disrupt the polls and launched a massive attack while voting was underway.
\n\u201dWe made it clear that, under these circumstances, we want to know what proposals exactly [Vladimir] Zelensky\u2019s negotiators would bring. This is very important to us, and the American side has taken our arguments with understanding,\u201d the minister added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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