{"id":558930,"date":"2025-11-09T07:56:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T07:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/558930\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T07:56:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T07:56:15","slug":"russias-lavrov-i-am-ready-to-meet-rubio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/558930\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s Lavrov: I am ready to meet Rubio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he was ready \u200bto meet U.S. Secretary of \u200cState Marco Rubio but that Russia&#8217;s interests would have \u200cto be taken into account for there to be peace in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Kremlin on Friday dismissed speculation that Lavrov had fallen out of favour \u2060with Vladimir Putin \u200cafter efforts to organise a summit between the Russian president and Donald Trump \u200dwere put on ice last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Reuters and other media reported that Washington called off the new summit after Lavrov&#8217;\u200bs ministry sent a message indicating Moscow was \u200cnot prepared to yield on its demands over Ukraine. Britain&#8217;s Financial Times cited a source as suggesting that Lavrov&#8217;s conversation with Rubio had put Washington off.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Secretary of State Marco \u2060Rubio and I understand \u200bthe need for regular communication,\u200b&#8221; Lavrov told state news agency RIA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It is important for discussing the \u200dUkrainian issue and \u2060promoting the bilateral agenda. That is why we communicate by telephone and are ready \u2060to hold face-to-face meetings when necessary,&#8221; \u200cLavrov said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Reuters; \u200cediting by Guy Faulconbridge)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he was ready \u200bto meet U.S. Secretary of \u200cState Marco&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[32,2820,332,75152,9740,333],"class_list":{"0":"post-558930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-marco-rubio","10":"tag-russia","11":"tag-russian-foreign-minister","12":"tag-sergei-lavrov","13":"tag-vladimir-putin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115518674319033113","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}