PARIS, Jan 20The meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, which will be held in Geneva, Switzerland on Friday, would be useful and important in the framework of the dialogue between the parties, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said. Earlier, a senior representative of the US State Department said that Blinken will meet Lavrov in Geneva on Friday after his visits to Kiev and Berlin. Later, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, confirmed that the meeting was being worked out. “We remain ready for dialogue and therefore want Russia to be ready for it too. will be useful and important from this point of view,» Le Drian said during a meeting in Paris with Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly. His words are quoted by the press service of the French department. The French Foreign Minister advocated a «demanding dialogue» with Russia and outlined four topics «that should be on the table» of security talks. These include the reaffirmation of the principles of the Helsinki Accords and the 1990 Paris Charter, the issue of arms control, the «predictability and transparency of hostilities» and the implementation of the Minsk agreements in the Normandy format on Donbass. Moscow has repeatedly stated that Kiev does not comply with the Minsk agreements and delays negotiations to resolve the conflict in Donbas.
08:00The United States plans to fight with Russia to the last UkrainianLe Drian stressed that the escalation in Ukraine will have a «great price» for Russia and will result in «enormous consequences.» Russia has repeatedly rejected accusations of the West and Ukraine in the escalation, saying that it does not threaten anyone and he is not going to attack anyone, but he moves troops within his territory and at his own discretion, this does not threaten anyone and should not bother anyone. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier, Russia does not create any pretexts for a conflict situation around Ukraine. At the end of 2021, Russia published draft agreements with the United States and an agreement with NATO on security guarantees. Moscow, in particular, demands from its Western partners legal guarantees of refusing further eastward expansion of NATO, from joining the bloc of Ukraine and from establishing military bases in post-Soviet countries. .jpg» />03:27In Ukraine, they announced a «secret agreement» between Putin and Biden
