{"id":296783,"date":"2026-09-09T09:44:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T05:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=296783"},"modified":"2026-09-09T10:22:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:22:41","slug":"rubio-on-prospects-for-resolving-the-ukraine-conflict-i-dont-want-to-be-overly-optimistic-but-im-not-pessimistic-either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/296783\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio on prospects for resolving the Ukraine conflict: I don&#8217;t want to be overly optimistic, but I&#8217;m not pessimistic either"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Substantive new proposals were discussed during consultations in Moscow and Kyiv involving U.S. representatives, <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama\/28093193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I would describe this weekend as substantive in the sense that engagement has resumed after many months of silence,&rdquo; Rubio noted while answering journalists&rsquo; questions in Colombia regarding the trips of U.S. Presidential Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and the U.S. leader&rsquo;s son-in-law Jared Kushner to Moscow and Kyiv. &ldquo;And substantive ideas were put forward,&rdquo; the Secretary of State specified. He noted that &ldquo;new ideas were discussed,&rdquo; but emphasized that &ldquo;a lot of work remains.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think these were substantive talks. I don&rsquo;t want to call them good or bad,&rdquo; Rubio added. He explained that he &ldquo;doesn&rsquo;t want to be overly optimistic, but isn&rsquo;t pessimistic either&rdquo; regarding the prospects for a settlement to the Ukrainian conflict.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Substantive new proposals were discussed during consultations in Moscow and Kyiv involving U.S. representatives, according to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. &ldquo;I would describe this weekend as substantive in the sense that engagement has resumed after many months of silence,&rdquo; Rubio noted while answering journalists&rsquo; questions in Colombia regarding the trips of U.S. Presidential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296784,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296783\/revisions\/296784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}