US Secretary of State Marco Rubio emerged from a lengthy meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov with an agreement to restart diplomatic relations between the two countries and start formal consultations on a peace deal on Ukraine. The two men were both bullish about diplomatic and economic prospects for the future.
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