“I think it was a promising meeting. As I have said many times, we will not discuss this publicly. Let's hope we have something to announce soon. I can't warrant that, but I'm certain I think the gathering was promising."The exchange was promising," said the U.S. Secretary of State.
At the same time, he stressed that there were "certain challenges", presenting a plan to end the war. According to Rubio, Plan A assumes the cessation of war activities, after which it is possible to decision to Plan B, the second phase on the road to peace.
"The second step is to bring everyone to the table, possibly through shuttle diplomacy, to find a way to end this war in a sustainable way, respecting everyone's needs and so on. No 1 says that the second part will be easy, but we cannot get there until we get through the first part," said the U.S. Secretary of State.
He besides stressed that this would not be “easy” and that the parties would gotta make concessions. "We are moving on to the second phase, which is to negociate something longer and more durable. It's gonna be hard. It will require quite a few hard work, concessions on both sides, but it has to come to this. This war cannot continue. The president has made this clear and is doing everything in his power to end it," Rubio said.
