Rex Tillerson is looking to appoint a special
envoy at the State Department "to manage and lead the new Ukraine
effort," The Washington Post newspaper reported.
WASHINGTON, May 29. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to restart peace negotiations with Russia to resolve the Ukrainian crisis, The Washington Post newspaper wrote on Monday, citing US officials and outside experts.
The effort is led by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who has reportedly discussed this issue with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. "There is also a robust interagency process to chart the new strategy, and the office of Vice President Pence is also involved," the report says.
"Although
still in its early stages, Tillerson’s idea is to restart a version of the
peace negotiations that the Obama administration was engaged in last year,
hoping that new circumstances and personalities might produce better
results," the paper writes.
Tillerson
is looking to appoint a special envoy at the State Department "to manage
and lead the new Ukraine effort." The new envoy would reinvigorate the
US-Russian diplomatic channel with Russian Presidential Aide Vladislav Surkov.
President Barack Obama’s assistant secretary of state for Europe, Victoria
Nuland, "was ultimately unable to make progress through that channel last
year," the report says.
However,
the current scandal, linked to the investigation into Russia’s alleged
interference into the US presidential elections in 2016, complicates
everything, the paper writes. Congress insists on applying more sanctions to
Russia rather than lifting them.
Source:
ITAR-TASS 29-05-2017
