OREANDA-NEWS  Cooperation between Russia and the United States is important for achieving sustainable peace in Ukraine. This was stated by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the US Foreign Ministry reported.

"Secretary Rubio stressed the importance of the upcoming contacts as an opportunity for Russia and the United States to move towards a lasting resolution of the conflict in accordance with the vision of the President [of the United States Donald] Trump," the document says.

The State Department also noted that the conversation between the foreign ministers of the two countries took place as a follow-up to the telephone conversation between the presidents of the United States and Russia, which took place on October 16.

Earlier it became known that Lavrov and Rubio may hold a meeting on Ukraine on October 23. Information about a possible meeting between the two diplomats appeared after they held telephone talks on Monday, October 20.