{"id":49116,"date":"2025-05-15T04:57:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T08:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/natos-rutte-cautiously-optimistic-about-ukraine-russia-talks\/15\/05\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T04:57:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T08:57:50","slug":"natos-rutte-cautiously-optimistic-about-ukraine-russia-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/natos-rutte-cautiously-optimistic-about-ukraine-russia-talks\/15\/05\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO&#8217;s Rutte &#8216;cautiously optimistic&#8217; about Ukraine-Russia talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Thursday said he sees opportunities for progress on ending the war in Ukraine, despite Russian President Vladimir Putin missing talks in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I&#8217;m still cautiously optimistic &#8230; that you could get to some breakthrough over the next couple of weeks,&#8221; Rutte said on the sidelines of a gathering of NATO foreign ministers in the Turkish city of Antalya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">However, Rutte said the talks would only progress if the Russians turned up with a relevant delegation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The ball is now clearly in Russia&#8217;s court. They have to explain what they are doing, why they are here or not,&#8221; Rutte stressed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Ukraine is ready to commit to a ceasefire and immediate negotiations. That&#8217;s absolutely clear,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/natos-rutte-cautiously-optimistic-ukraine-075421642.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Thursday said he sees opportunities for progress on ending the war in Ukraine, despite Russian President<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/natos-rutte-cautiously-optimistic-about-ukraine-russia-talks\/15\/05\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/dpa_international_526\/ef9d057f91b413208c63e9f49bd71743","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}