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Washington wants Moscow to outline steps it would take to ease tensions with Europe alongside its security demands, according to Axios. The request forms part of talks on ending the war in Ukraine.
The United States has asked Russia to draw up new proposals for European security, Axios reported, citing sources familiar with the negotiations, according to accounts published by LIGA.net and UNIAN. The proposed document would set out both Moscow’s demands and steps it would take to reassure European countries that it would not attack them.
US representatives Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner raised the request during talks involving Ukraine, the United States and Russia in Abu Dhabi on November 10–11, LIGA.net reported. They urged the Russian delegation to revise demands Moscow made in 2021, arguing that the world had changed since then.
The US representatives are also pressing Russia to accept European participation in the next round of peace talks, which Moscow has opposed, according to the reports. LIGA.net said Witkoff and Kushner planned to meet Vladimir Putin in Moscow on November 12 to repeat their proposals.
An Axios source said Washington would not accept a security agreement with Russia without Ukrainian and European support or give Moscow a veto over European security decisions. The reports describe a request for proposals, rather than an agreed document, and do not specify a deadline for Russia to prepare it.
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