GENEVA (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 23rd August, 2018) The final communique after talks between Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev and US National Security Adviser John Bolton was not signed due to the US position, Patrushev said Thursday.
"We planned to sign a joint statement after the meeting, but didn't sign it, because the Americans wanted it to contain [a phrase] that we interfered in their election, in their opinion, while we deny this," Patrushev said.
He said Russia proposed in response to include in the document a provision on the inadmissibility of US interference in the internal affairs of other countries.
"We said that if there is such a phrase, we need to include in the document [the provision] that the Americans should not interfere in internal affairs [of other countries]. Then they said that they would not sign such a statement at all," Patrushev said.
He said the United States also wanted to bring up the fight against terrorism as the US-Russia only coinciding point of interest, but added that Moscow insisted on a broader agenda.
