🔺Rubio is in talks with the G7 foreign ministers about the Islamic Republic and Ukraine

◾ U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet with his counterparts in the Group of Seven in Paris on Monday, 18 Aban. The war in Ukraine and the standoff with the Islamic Republic are on the agenda for this meeting.

◾ Before traveling to Paris, Rubio said in the U.S. state of Florida about tensions with Tehran that the two sides are “not on the verge of progress.”

◾ He explained that although President Trump prefers a diplomatic track, this approach has so far “not been very productive,” because the demands of the Islamic Republic are “unacceptable.”

◾ He also said about security guarantees for Ukraine after the war that “progress” has been made but that “nothing is final yet,” and that there may be openings in the negotiations in Abu Dhabi.