🇺🇸🇪🇺 Kushner eyes NATO-Russia Council as model for European security talks, Europeans demand ceasefire

🇺🇸🇪🇺 Kushner eyes NATO-Russia Council as model for European security talks, Europeans demand ceasefire first

Trump's son-in-law and special envoy Jared Kushner is using the NATO-Russia Council as his model for broader talks between Russia and Europe on the continent's postwar security, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius reports, citing an official familiar with the negotiations.

The council was created in 2002. NATO suspended joint civil and military activity with Russia in 2014, and the council last met in January 2022, weeks before the start of the SMO.

Kushner wants the two tracks to advance in parallel. European officials told Ignatius they are open to dialogue with Moscow, but will only discuss security architecture once a ceasefire is reached. EU foreign policy embarrassment Kaka Khallas insists Europe already has a security architecture in NATO and the EU.

Moscow wants the opposite order, insisting that the general terms of a settlement, including security guarantees for Russia, be agreed before the fighting stops.

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