Secretary of State Marco Rubio briefly mentioned the summit preparations throughout an unrelated occasion on the State Division on Thursday.
“They are going very quick as a result of this was put collectively in a short time, and it’s in Alaska, so we’ve received to get there,” Rubio stated. “We’ll see how tomorrow performs out. Because the president stated, his hope is to work together with Mr. Putin tomorrow and kind of get a way in a short time and early whether or not a peace is feasible or not.”
“We hope it’s,” he added.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio listens as Overseas Minister of Paraguay Ruben Ramirez Lezcano speaks forward of signing a memorandum of understanding within the Treaty Room of the State Division in Washington, August 14, 2025.
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The secretary additionally spoke concerning the situations that will must be met to realize a long-lasting peace.
“I feel all of us acknowledge that there’ll need to be some dialog about safety ensures. There’ll need to be some dialog about, you recognize, territorial disputes and claims and what they’re preventing over,” Rubio stated. “However I feel the president’s hope is to realize some stoppage of preventing in order that these conversations can occur.”
Because the preventing is ongoing, he stated a ceasefire is “important.”
“We wish there to be a peace, we will do every little thing we are able to to realize one, however finally, it is going to be as much as Ukraine and Russia to agree to at least one,” Rubio stated.
-ABC Information’ Shannon Okay. Kingston
