Diplomat: US unwilling to
work on equality basis in dialogue with Russia on Syria
August
05, 19:17 UTC+3
US President Barack Obama earlier said he was not confident "that we can trust the Russians or Vladimir Putin" in the Syrian settlement
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Novoderezhkin/TASS
MOSCOW,
August 5. /TASS/. The United States is demonstrating unwillingness to work on
an equal footing in its dialogue with Russia on Syria, Russian Deputy Foreign
Minister Sergei Ryabkov told TASS on Friday.
US
President Barack Obama earlier said he was not confident "that we can
trust the Russians or Vladimir Putin" in the Syrian settlement.
The
United States is again demonstrating "lack of confidence in our foreign
policy," Ryabkov said. "I believe that Russia’s policy on Syria, just
like our foreign policy in general, is very logical, clear and pursues the
objectives, which we hope are shared by most members of the international
community," he said.
Russia’s
policy "is supported by specific actions, like, for example, in and around
Aleppo where we are carrying out a large-scale operation together with the
government forces of the Syrian Arab Republic," Ryabkov said. "What
we can fully agree with is a serious lack of confidence in the Russian-US
relations," he said commenting on the US president’s remarks.
"Over
the past few years, we have seen a deliberate policy aimed at undermining the
pillar of our relations by means of Washington’s illegal sanctions policy,
attempts to exert pressure on us through military means, as evidenced by the
results of the recent NATO summit in Warsaw, and in many other areas, including
the humanitarian sphere where many long-standing and very acute humanitarian
issues like, for example, the situation with the arbitrary arrests of Russian
citizens in some third countries by warrants issued by the US and many others
are not solved," he said.
"We
believe that confidence in relations between Russia and the United States can
be restored only if colleagues in Washington take an honest and responsible
approach towards the entire agenda of bilateral relations between Moscow and
Washington," Ryabkov said.
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