Putin aide reveals date of next Russia-US talks in Riyadh

Moscow’s delegation for the upcoming meeting in Saudi Arabia has already been put together, according to Yury Ushakov

A new round of negotiations between Russian and US officials will take place in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh on Monday, President Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov has said.

Senator Georgy Karasin and Sergey Beseda, who is an aide to the director of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) Aleksandr Bortnikov, will be heading Moscow’s delegation of experts at the upcoming talks, Ushakov announced on Thursday.

“They are truly experienced negotiators, who are well versed in international issues,” he added.

A team of US experts that will take part in the meeting in Saudi Arabia has also been put together, Ushakov said.

On Wednesday, Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz announced that he’d had a phone call with Ushakov, during which they “agreed that our technical teams will meet in Riyadh in the coming days.”

Putin’s aide has confirmed that “such a conversation did take place.”