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MINSK, 22 February (BelTA) - A meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S President Donald Trump can still take place in Budapest if negotiators from Moscow and Washington reach certain framework agreements, participant in the Other Ukraine movement and former member of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada Spiridon Kilinkarov said in a new episode of the V Teme [On Point] project on BelTA’s YouTube channel.
“Zelensky understands perfectly well that despite all his resistance, the pressure on him to engage in negotiations will increase. Obviously, the need for an additional meeting between Putin and Trump will arise. This is because the negotiating groups can only solve certain technical tasks,” said Spiridon Kilinkarov. “Of course, this is very important and meticulous work that someone has to carry out. But ultimately, these negotiations could reach an impasse from which only the leaders of the United States or Russia can extract them. And a platform will be needed for that.”
The former MP believes that Budapest could serve as such a platform. Previously, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump had planned to meet in the Hungarian capital, but that meeting was canceled. Spiridon Kilinkarov does not rule out that the regular attacks on Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban by Vladimir Zelensky are precisely related to Kiev’s attempt to hinder such processes in Budapest.
“Relatively speaking, if they manage to reach some kind of framework agreement that would allow the two leaders to meet, then I do not rule out that at the end of March, for example, this meeting could still take place in Budapest. Trump openly declares his support for Orban, and I do not rule out that such a world-scale meeting could yield a certain result,” the former Verkhovna Rada member said.
According to him, the reason a Russia-USA summit in Budapest did not happen before was the lack of a specific topic for Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump to negotiate. However, Spiridon Kilinkarov believes that such a topic could be developed during trilateral talks between Russia, the USA, and Ukraine.
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