Washington, March 3. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke on Friday by telephone with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, the day after his meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the G20.
As State Department spokesman Ned Price reported in a statement, the Secretary of State briefed Kuleba on the conversation he had with his Russian counterpart Thursday in New Delhi, the first facing to face between Blinken and Lavrov since they The Ukrainian war began.
Blinken also reiterated to Kuleba American support for Ukraine so it can defend itself against “brutal attacks” from Russia, including the latest offensives against civilian infrastructure that have resulted in casualties.
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At their meeting on the sidelines of the G20 on Thursday, Blinken demanded from Lavrov that Russia reverse its “irresponsible decision” and re-implement the new Start treaty, which, as he recalled in a subsequent press conference , establishes “verifiable limits to the nuclear arsenals of the United States and the Russian Federation”.
Furthermore, “I told the (Russian) foreign minister what others said last week at the UN, and many foreign ministers said at this meeting: ‘End this war,'” Blinken said.
G20 foreign ministers failed on Thursday in their attempt to reach a common agreement due to divergent positions on the war in Ukraine, a failure that Lavrov blamed on the West.