Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman meets with US
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the Royal Palace grounds in Jeddah,
Saudi Arabia, on March 10, 2025.things, they just … need to be put on the table and
everybody needs to be transparent about what their expectations are,
then we can begin to have a discussion about how we compromise.”
Witkoff added that Zelensky apologizing for his behavior during the meeting was “progress.”
During his address to Congress last week, President Trump revealed
that he received a letter from Zelensky, although he did not report that
the Ukrainian leader apologized.
“Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as
possible to bring lasting peace closer. Nobody wants peace more than the
Ukrainians,” Trump stated during his speech, reading from the
Zelensky’s letter.
“We really value how much America has done to help Ukraine maintain
its sovereignty and independence,” Trump added, continuing to read the
letter aloud.
The meeting with Trump and Zelensky at the end of last month in the Oval Office was reportedly supposed to end with Zelensky signing a minerals deal, tying the U.S. and Ukrainian economies closer together.
Instead, the meeting devolved into the two world leaders shouting
over each other, with President Trump arguing that Zelensky is “gambling
with World War III.”
The apology from Zelensky follows after President Trump froze
intelligence sharing and military assistance to Ukraine, pressuring Kyiv
towards the negotiating table.
“I hope we get things back on track with the Ukrainians and
everything resumes,” Witkoff stated. “I think those are all decisions of
the president, but I think he felt that Zelensky’s letter was a very
positive first step.”
Additionally, Marco Rubio arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday ahead of Tuesday’s meeting with Ukrainian officials, in an attempt to iron out a peace agreement with Russia.
“We really want to sort of ascertain where they stand on this and
what they’re willing to do in order to achieve peace,” Rubio stated on
Monday. “I think if we emerge there with a good meeting that we feel
good about and can report back to the president, then I think decisions
will be made in regards to the pause.”
Rubio revealed that the point of the conversation is not to “draw
lines on a map,” but rather, to gain a “general sense of what
concessions are in the realm of the possible for them and what they
would need in return and then find out what the Russian position is in
that regard. And that’ll give us a pretty good assessment of how far
apart we truly are.”
Rubia added that Ukraine has “suffered greatly, and their people have
suffered greatly, and it’s hard in the aftermath of something like that
to even talk about concessions, but that’s the only way this is going
to end, to prevent more suffering.”
Zelensky is reportedly in Saudi Arabia, although he is not expected to attend the meeting on Tuesday.
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