US Secretary of State Rubio calls Alaska summit very productive

The summit between Russian and American Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in Alaska was very productive, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a comment for VGTRK journalist Pavel Zarubin who posted the relevant remarks on his Telegram channel, Report informs via TASS.

When asked by the Russian journalist about how the summit had passed, the US top diplomat assessed it quite highly, saying that the encounter had been very good and very productive.

The meeting between President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Donald Trump of the United States took place at a military base in Alaska on August 15.

The meeting lasted over three hours, with the two leaders first holding a one-on-one conversation in a car on their way to the venue of the talks.

Their closed-door negotiations also involved Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Kremlin Aide Yury Ushakov, as well as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff.