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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
Moscow, May 16 /Xinhua/ – The Russian delegation will be waiting for the Ukrainian side on Friday from 10 am, it should arrive for the meeting, TASS reported with reference to the head of the Russian delegation at the talks with Ukraine in Istanbul, aide to the Russian president Vladimir Medinsky.
“Tomorrow morning, literally from 10 am, we will be waiting for the Ukrainian side, which should arrive for the meeting. We are ready to work,” he said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking to journalists in the Kremlin on the night of May 11, proposed that the authorities in Kyiv resume direct negotiations, which they interrupted in 2022, without preconditions. It was proposed to begin the dialogue on May 15 in Istanbul.
On the night of May 15, V. Putin approved the composition of the Russian delegation. It is headed by the Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, who represented the country at the negotiations in 2022. –0–