US Secretary of State Marco Rubio assured after his meeting in Geneva with the Ukrainian delegation to discuss the peace agreement plan of his president, Donald Trump, that there are still points pending, but "none are insurmountable."

"I can tell you that the “The issues that remain unresolved are not unmountable; we just need more time than we had today. Honestly, I believe we will reach an agreement," he told reporters at the US Mission, where the talks took place. When asked by reporters about the alleged European “counter-plan” leaked by some media outlets on Sunday, which mentioned, among other points, not reducing the Ukrainian military force from 900,000 to 600,000 troops (as Trump's proposal suggests) but only to 800,000, Rubio claimed to be unaware of its existence. He did acknowledge that some points of the plan affecting the role of the European Union or NATO “have been set aside because we just met with national security advisors from several European countries and we need to discuss them with them, as they affect them.” “We had a very good day; I think we made a tremendous amount of progress,” he summarized at the beginning of his appearance when asked to describe the day's events. The meeting with the Ukrainian delegation, headed by Andriy Yermak, chief of staff to President Volodymyr Zelensky.

“Today we came here with one goal: to take the 28 or 26 points of the plan, depending on the version as it evolved, and try to reduce those that remained open; and we have achieved this very significantly,” he assured.

“Now, obviously, as with any final agreement, it will have to be approved by the presidents, and there are a couple of issues we still need to work on,” he added, showing relative flexibility regarding the timeframe Ukraine has to respond, despite the initial deadline set by Trump of November 27.

“As this is still an ongoing process, I don't want to declare victory or consider anything completed, “There are still things to finish.” resolve,but we are much further along now than when we started this morning and certainly further than a week ago,” he said. Rubio asserted that, despite Russia's absence from the Geneva talks, “the Russians also have a voice here, and from the beginning of the process we have taken their position into account, which has been communicated to us in multiple ways.” I have reiterated that this day of talks “has been the best day we have had in ten months of working on these issues” and affirmed that “it is clear that, to achieve a definitive end to this war, Ukraine must feel secure and know that it will not be invaded or attacked again.” EFE