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Source: People’s Republic of China in Russian – People’s Republic of China in Russian –
Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
Moscow, May 30 (Xinhua) — A Russian delegation is heading to Istanbul and will be ready to continue talks with Ukrainian representatives on Monday morning, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov announced at a briefing.
“Today I wanted to inform you that our delegation, the Russian delegation of negotiators, is leaving for Istanbul and will be ready on Monday morning to continue negotiations, for the second round of negotiations,” he said.
According to the press secretary, the drafts of the Russian and Ukrainian memorandums will not be published. “Of course, nothing will be made public. This cannot be made public,” D. Peskov noted. “Both draft memorandums, the Russian and Ukrainian, we hope, will be discussed at the second round of negotiations,” he added.
The security of navigation in the Black Sea, according to the Kremlin representative, will become an integral part of the conditions of the temporary truce. “A list of conditions is being developed, a list of conditions for a temporary truce will be agreed upon, and thus the security of navigation in the Black Sea will one way or another become an integral part of possible future understandings,” he noted.
The briefing also touched on the possibility of direct negotiations between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian and US Presidents Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump. According to D. Peskov, this can only be discussed after the Russian and Ukrainian delegations have achieved results in the negotiations. “If such a result is achieved, and when it is achieved, then, of course, we can talk about contacts at the highest level,” he said. –0–