Переговоры по Украине приведут к шокирующей сделке - Джей Ди Вэнс

Переговоры по Украине приведут к шокирующей сделке - Джей Ди Вэнс

QUESTION: Let’s jump right into it. There’s so much we want to ask you about the start of this Trump administration. The domestic stuff, the executive orders have got a tremendous amount of focus, but the President has an ambitious foreign policy agenda that you are the point person for.

Let’s just start with, if you could, set the table on Russia/Ukraine and the reporting that Trump is eager to have negotiations to end that conflict, to at least bring about a ceasefire.

SECRETARY RUBIO: Well, the great thing about working for President Trump is there’s not a lot of ambiguity. I mean, he’s pretty straightforward and he’s been campaigning and saying the war would have never happened if he was president; I believe that to be true. He said that yesterday too to Vladimir Putin, by the way, and he wants it to end. Now, he wants to end the war. He’s not looking for just like a pause. He’s looking for it to end and it’s going to be hard and it’s going to have to move in stages. Maybe it starts with a ceasefire. That’s not been agreed to, not even negotiated, but I’m just saying that – and then opening things like aid corridors and ensuring that both sides aren’t targeting energy infrastructure. So we’ll see how that plays out.

And by the way, I think the US – it’s not going to happen without Trump. He’s the only one in the world that can bring something like this together, but it has to be a global effort. It’s not just us, it’s – not just in Europe or NATO. I mean, countries around the world are going to have to participate.

Now, I will say Europe is going to have to provide – there’s going to be durable security guarantees for Ukraine. That’s going to have to be the Europeans who have to be willing to step up and do that and – but there’s a lot of sensitive issues to talk about: territorial claims, arms control and things of that nature, language and cultural matters, all that is going to have to be worked through.

And finally, the US is going to have a stake in Ukraine’s long-term independence and that should be anchored in an ongoing economic interest, whether it’s the ability to – hopefully we’ll have some news here soon on that – the ability to partner with Ukraine, a joint venture or something like that, for their mineral rights, all the natural resources they have, and some of that money will go back to pay back the US taxpayer for the billions of dollars that’s been spent there and part of it is going to be reinvested back into Ukraine to rebuild all the destruction that’s happened there – their infrastructure and things like that.

США не исключают возможности вступления Украины в НАТО и возможности возвращения Украиной контроля над всей своей территорией.