Kremlin: worsening of Russia-U.S. bilateral relations continuing

  23 August 2018    Read: 1485
Kremlin: worsening of Russia-U.S. bilateral relations continuing

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said they needed to understand if there was political will in Washington to cooperate with Russia as it prepared for a meeting between U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton and his Russian counterpart Nikolai Patrushev.

"The worsening of bilateral relations is continuing, we need to identify some kind of areas for cooperation and also to understand if there are any such areas and whether our counterpart has a desire for this," Reuters cited Peskov as saying.

He said the Kremlin disagreed with Bolton’s statement, saying Moscow was helping to facilitate the return of refugees to Syria and to start the reconstruction process.

"The statement that Russia is stuck is not correct, even more so coming from our colleagues in Washington. We shouldn’t forget that American soldiers are also on Syrian territory,” Peskov added.

Patrushev and Bolton are due to meet in Geneva for talks on Thursday in the first high-level meeting since the Russian and U.S. presidents held talks in Helsinki in July.


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