“Special Messenger of President Donald Trump in the Middle East, former real estate lawyer and investor Steve Witcoff caused anxiety among the US administration insiders with his approach to negotiations with the two greatest enemies of America.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: “European Truth”, New York Post with a source reference
Details: Vitcoff, who became the actual personal envoy of Trump under the head of Russia, Vladimir Putini, in addition to attending the Middle East, participates in meetings at a high level on its own – and, according to sources, even sometimes seeks help to the Kremlin translators, which is a violation of ancient diplomatic procedures.
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Before Putin’s last meeting with Putin last Friday, the New York native congratulated the Kremlin tyrant as an old friend-without any signs of the usual reconciliation of advisers, experts and military people who usually accompany US negotiation officials.
Putin himself was not at the meeting on Friday, but was accompanied by his assistant Yuri Ushakov and the head of the Russian direct investment fund Kirill Dmitriev.
“Anyone who participates in such negotiations with Putin wins from the fact that his team has experienced experts from Russia, who can take with them at a meeting with the Kremlin,” said Vitcoff John Hardy, Director of the Democracy Program in Russia.
The publication also points out that Vitcoffe is inclined to repeat Putin’s words and spread his narrative, while the position of the Ukrainian side is unknown to him, because the role of the specialist in Ukraine is given to Kelloga Kita.
Vitcoff, whom associates call a fierce negotiator, would have enough things without interfering with the worst conflict in Europe since World War II.
As a special envoy in the Middle East, Vitcoff tried to achieve a ceasefire agreement and the release of hostages between Israel and Hamas, as well as to review the agreement with Iran on his nuclear program.
Witcoff’s career began successfully: he helped to achieve a two -month truce between Israel and Hamas, which came into force on the eve of Trump’s inauguration. However, the armistice failed.
Although many Israelites value Vitcoff, his lack of diplomatic experience is considered a factor that overshadows his judgment.
Others fear that vitcoffe is assigned a too big role.
“How will Vitcoff distribute his time between two very difficult negotiations? I consider him a good guy, but Iran’s question is so difficult that I hope he will bring more people to the team,” says Israeli security expert and employee of the National Security Research Institute in Tel Aviv, Danny Sitrinovich.
The publication also points to the criticism of Witcoff through his work in the Iranian direction and gives the words of the former Trump assistant on national security, John Bolton, who called the negotiations of a special settler with Tehran representatives in vain time.
Reuters has already wrote that the individual actions and statements of the US Presidential Message concerning the settlement of a Russian full -scale invasion of Ukraine have been criticized in the White House and among Republicans.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said earlier that Steve Witcoff has been distributed by Russian narratives with his statements about the possible inclusion of Ukrainian territories in the “peace agreement”.
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