The United States keeps looking for pretexts to avoid a new meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said Tuesday
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 22nd January, 2019) The United States keeps looking for pretexts to avoid a new meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said Tuesday.
"The reason that there were no new full-format [Putin-Trump] talks after Helsinki is, I would say, in the general chaos in Washington in terms of domestic politics, when there are forces trying to make it seem as if any contact with Russia was something unsavory ... There are always pretexts for meetings not to happen," Ryabkov told International Affairs magazine.
The deputy foreign minister added that the schedule of the Russian president included international events in which Trump might take part.
"You may compare their schedules, you may speculate on this topic, but this would be extremely irresponsible. It is a question for Washington," Ryabkov said.
