TASHKENT, November 9. /TASS/. The professionalism of the Russian delegation members at the trilateral talks in the United Arab Emirates renders any disinformation campaigns ineffective, and there is no threat of the negotiation process being derailed. This assessment was given to TASS by Daniil Bisslinger, Vice President of the Global Fact-Checking Network (GFCN).

"When there is an event that raises high expectations, parties with various interests use certain tools to try to influence it. We are not seeing any threat to these negotiations," he told the agency on the sidelines of the 3rd Russia-Uzbekistan Media Forum ahead of the trilateral meeting in the United Arab Emirates.

"On our side, the professionalism of the participants is so high that influencing them through disinformation campaigns would not merely be difficult - it would be impossible," Bisslinger emphasized.

Trilateral talks between Russia, the United States and Ukraine on a settlement of the conflict are due to take place on November 10-11 in Abu Dhabi. The Russian delegation will be led by Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, the Ukrainian delegation by Rustem Umerov, head of Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service. As Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov reported, the talks will focus on security guarantees, with details to be discussed behind closed doors. The Russian delegation also includes Deputy Foreign Ministers Sergey Ryabkov and Mikhail Galuzin, as well as representatives of two directorates of the Russian Armed Forces’ General Staff, Igor Kostyukov and Yury Zhigarlovsky.

The 3rd Russia-Uzbekistan Media Forum is taking place in Tashkent on November 9-10. It is organized by TASS and Uzbekistan’s National News Agency (UzA).