NATO general secretary says Trump will be

NATO general secretary Mark Rutte said on Sunday that President Trump will be “testing” Russian President Vladimir Putin in his emblematic point of view face to face MEETING SCHEDULE FOR FRIDAYas world leaders promote a high fire agreement in the War of Russia with Ukraine.

“On Friday, it is important to see how serious Putin is, and the only one who can do it is President Trump,” Routte said to “face the nation with Margaret Brennan.”

Trump announced the “highly anticipated” summit with Putin in a publication about Truth Social at the end of last week, saying that leaders will meet on Friday in Alaska.

The president of the United States had expressed his frustration with Putin in recent weeks, since Russia hit Ukraine with drones and missile attacks, including what Ukraine described as the attacks of this large met with Putin In Moscow, and the two countries began to suggest the opening to a meeting between the two presidents.

Trump told reporters at the end of last week that Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy want to “see peace.” And although the White House had indicated at the beginning of the week that Trump is open to meet with Putin and Zelenskyy, Trump said he plans “to start with Russia”, while adding that “we have an opportunity to” call a trilateral meeting with Putin and Zelenskyy. Two sources told News themezone Saturday that Trump is still willing to meet together with Zelenskyy and Putin, but the meeting currently remains bilateral, as Putin requested.

Rutte, asked if he feels comfortable with Ukraine that is excluded from these negotiations on Friday, said when it comes to a discussion about territory, security guarantees, peace conversations and what happens later, “Ukraine will have to be, and will be involved.”

“It is really crucial for a meeting to take place. It will not be the last saying about this,” Routte said. “Of course, Ukraine will have to participate in Europe, but it is important to start the next phase of this process, pressing the Russians, exactly as President Trump has been doing in the last six months.”

Rutte argued that Trump “basically broke the point of the dead” at the beginning of a dialogue with Putin earlier this year, calling him a “crucial” development.

He usually praised Mr. Trump’s strategy. Rutte promoted a “great NATO summit” under the leadership of the president of the United States, with commitments for each Member State to increase the 5% defense expense of its GDP, in a signal with Russia that “we are serious.” And Rutte accredited Mr. Trump for allowing us weapons to be delivered In Ukraine, which said “opened the gates”, while praising the secondary sanctions planned to some of the largest oil and Russian gas buyers, including India.

The Secretary General said that the deliveries of coordinated weapons in NATO will continue regardless of what happens at the summit of Friday, emphasizing their commitment to “ensure that Ukraine has what he needs to remain in the fight and be in the best possible position” when the time of negotiations for a high agreement or La Paz arrives.

On the possibility that the beginning of these negotiations, Routte said that Friday’s meeting “is President Trump making sure Putin is serious.”

“If it is not, then it will stop there,” Routte said. “If you are serious, then from Friday, the process will continue: Ukraine gets involved, Europeans are involved.”

It is not clear what they form an eventual agreement of high fire or peace could carry, as it has demanded that Ukraine yields the parts of East Ukraine occupied by the Russian troops, which Ukraine has rejected. Trump said last week any agreement will probably imply “some exchange of territories.”

Rutte said on Sunday that Russia’s control over the Ukrainian territory can never be accepted “in a legal sense”, but negotiations could cover “how to deal with the objective situation that Russians are holding, at this time, Ukrainian territory.”

The Ukraine ambassador to the United States, Oksana Markarova, also appeared on Sunday “Face the Nation” and said that “all Ukraine says so that President Trump is effective and has great results.”

“We want Putin to stop,” Markarova said. “And we really have the hope that this impulse of President Trump and the sanction packages that are on the table and the secondary sanctions that are already implemented against those who help Russia will convince President Putin that this is the time that he finally stops his aggression.”

Markarova said that Zelenskyy is willing to participate in future meetings as necessary, but did not criticize the fact that Alaska’s meeting will only present US and Russian leaders, saying: “Sometimes, diplomacy requires different formats.”

Even so, others have expressed concern about the planned meeting between Trump and Putin. Senator Mark Kelly, a Arizona Democrat who also appeared in “Face the Nation” on Sunday, said: “I hope we have taken some of this”, saying that the administration “should have extracted something for this visit.”

“Putin is a war criminal,” Kelly said. “This is not a sample of strength to allow him to fly to the United States, land here, negotiate with our president.”

Jennifer Jacobs contributed to this report.

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