Riabkov: The purpose of future talks with Americans is to tension on relations

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov stressed in a statement that Moscow and Washington are planning to consult with the Department of State Department managers at the Foreign Ministry’s departments in the next six weeks before the restoration To remove tensions in their bilateral relations.

Ryabkov emphasized that such consultations would be held in a third country within the next five weeks between the administrators of the two foreign ministries of the two countries and its location details are now in place.

“We have presented the details of our approach to annoying issues in bilateral relations in Riyadh,” he continued. Americans are now considered them. “We will further detail them, including the parameters of our suggestions in writing to facilitate the process.”

“There are currently two parallel but interconnected routes between Russia and the United States, one on Ukraine and the other on bilateral issues,” Ryabkov said in an interview with the Rihanosti News Agency. The understanding of the current is that Russia and the United States are primarily developing and deepening their talks on bilateral issues. “

“I mean,” said Sergei Ryabkov: “I mean, in the first place, the annoying factors (in bilateral relations) are eliminated, and in parallel, a trend in the Ukrainian crisis begins. It is also possible to discuss other issues, including international issues and strategic stability. “We have repeatedly said that a conversation about strategic stability and weapons control is possible when we see a obvious improvement in US policies.”

“I think we need to talk about the Middle East affairs with the Americans, and this is a clear issue with the depth and transformation of the current processes related to this field and in light of Russia’s role in world affairs and will play. Kurdish, it counts. So everything is possible. ”

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov also noted in the interview that Russia was ready for US professional dialogue and welcomed Washington’s tone tone.

“We carefully seize and analyze all the signals from Washington, especially from senior officials,” the Russian senior diplomat said. I have to say that the tone in the relationships between the two sides in recent days are significantly different from the past events. We welcome this change in the tone of the American side and are ready for practical and professional conversations and the continuation of these conversations. But the question that I think still to answer is to what extent this change of tone and nature of the statements can be made into practical steps and how fast these practical steps can happen. “

“It is necessary to incorporate new communications and new work opportunities into the practical agenda,” Ryabkov said.

“These issues were clear and were defined by the officials of the two countries at the very useful meeting in Riyadh,” he added. As we move on this path, we will gain a better understanding of the real and practical opportunities to make better changes, and we will find out if there will be deeper expert studies with the right time and a deep search for reconciliation solutions. “I think these issues are part of our efforts, but I can’t answer for the speed of these actions.”

Russia -US Supreme Talks were held in Riyadh on February 7, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian President Yuri Oskov, a member of the Russian negotiating board, while the US negotiating board, Mike Waltz, security adviser. National, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, and US Special Envoy in Western Asian affairs.

Sergei Ryabkov also said in an interview with Ryanovosti that the supplies to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Donald Trump are still in the early stages.

“Intensive preparations must be made before any agreement on the meeting,” he said. These supplies have actually been started right now. Riyadh negotiations are an important element of this process. But the issues are the same. In the general summary of the main issues involving the start of moving towards normalization of our relationships, and finding a solution for the most acute and potentially dangerous; “There are many situations and Ukraine is one of them.”

According to Ryabkov, Russia has not yet reached an agreement on sending its new ambassador to Washington.

He also emphasized that one of the priority issues for Moscow is to restore Russian diplomatic facilities illegally occupied by Washington on US soil.

“There is a priority for us that the media rarely write about; We have called for the return of our diplomatic assets that were illegally occupied by the American side. There are diplomatic facilities. “The American side violates the Vienna Convention, even preventing us from accessing the real estate, while they seem to be protected for diplomatic immunity, but they have ignored it.”

Late in the year, then US President Barack Obama boycotted four institutions, companies and Russian individuals under the pretext of “interference in elections” and “pressure on US diplomats”, and then two buildings in Washington and New York, Russian diplomatic assets. They were closed and declared the two Russian diplomats present in the United States as an undesirable element. US officials called for the closure of the Russian consulate in San Francisco and two other Russian buildings in Washington and New York, citing a decline in the number of US diplomatic employees in Russia, and Moscow also “confiscated” property confiscation “. Russian diplomatic read.

Ryabkov noted that Russia follows any public signal from the US on the need to return the number of diplomatic staff of the two countries’ embassies to the former figures, but the two countries must first address the issues of their current diplomats present on the opposite side. And make their situation normal.

“We have witnessed the public signals from the high -ranking representatives of the United States and are closely regarded, but we must normalize the situation of those who are currently doing in Washington and our consulates in the United States,” he said. “The artificial restrictions imposed on the journey of diplomats must be resolved in bilaterally.”

Ryabkov added that Russia and the United States should address their diplomats and diplomatic facilities before going to the negotiations on the increase in embassies and diplomatic facilities.

He emphasized that the resumption of consul General’s work in both countries was on the agenda, but the issue of the two sides is not currently.

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