{"id":137161,"date":"2017-12-07T08:44:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T13:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=137161"},"modified":"2025-03-07T13:42:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T18:42:46","slug":"tillerson-us-russia-could-normalize-ties-but-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/07\/tillerson-us-russia-could-normalize-ties-but-for-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Tillerson: US, Russia could normalize ties but for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Photo: U.S. Embassy New Delhi\/Flickr, CC BY-ND 2.0)” width=”640″ height=”427″ \/><\/a> U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson held up the Ukraine crisis Thursday as the sole issue keeping the United States and Russia from forging a closer relationship, arguing that all other disputes are secondary. (Photo<\/a>: U.S. Embassy New Delhi\/Flickr<\/a>, CC BY-ND 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

VIENNA\u2014U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson held up the Ukraine crisis Thursday as the sole issue keeping the United States and Russia from forging a closer relationship, arguing that all other disputes are secondary.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe issue that stands in the way is Ukraine,\u201d Tillerson said.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump campaigned on the need to improve ties with Russia, Tillerson said in Vienna, adding that \u201cnormalizing\u201d the relationship was something the U.S. still \u201cbadly would like to do.\u201d He said that from the start, the Trump administration had told Moscow that addressing Ukraine was the key to easing conflict between the two nuclear powers.<\/p>\n

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Tillerson’s diagnosis of the problem was striking in its downplaying of other key disputes, particularly Russia’s meddling in the U.S. presidential election. U.S. intelligence agencies including the CIA and FBI have concluded the Kremlin interfered in the election in an effort to help Trump and hurt Democrat Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

Yet Trump has repeatedly cast doubt on that assessment, amid a special counsel probe into whether members of his campaign colluded with the Russian effort.<\/p>\n

Tillerson insisted the U.S. could never overlook Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and \u201cattempted annexation\u201d of the Crimean peninsula.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can have differences in other arenas, in Syria, we can have differences in other areas,\u201d Tillerson said. \u201cBut when one country invades another, that is a difference that is hard to look past or to reconcile.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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