President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, has threatened to abandon the peace talk he is spearheading for Russia and Ukraine.
The United States President said the US is ready to “take a pass” on brokering a peace agreement between the two warring countries unless they were ready to reach a settlement “very shortly.”
Kyiv announced on Thursday it has signed a memorandum with the US over a controversial minerals deal.
“Now if for some reason one of the two parties makes it very difficult, we’re just going to say: ‘You’re foolish. You’re fools. You’re horrible people’ – and we’re going to just take a pass,” the American leader told reporters in Washington.
“But hopefully we won’t have to do that,” he added, declining to set a deadline for when the US would stop trying to negotiate a truce.
“But quickly. We want to get it done,” he said.
And when the journalists pressed further to know whether he was being “played” by Putin, Trump said: “Nobody’s playing me, I’m trying to help.”
Speaking earlier in the day, Trump’s US secretary of state, Marco Rubio said the US was ready to abandon its efforts “within days.
Rubio said in Paris after meeting European and Ukrainian leaders, the his principal was still interested in a deal.
He, however, said that the American president had many other priorities around the world and was willing to “move on” unless there were signs of progress.
“It is not our war. We didn’t start it,” Rubio said, adding that if a deal were not possible – with both sides still far apart – the US president was “probably at a point where he’s going to say, well, we’re done”.
Trump felt “very strongly” about this, he said.
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