Putin expects Washington to manifest readiness for dialogue
ARKHANGELSK. March 30 (Interfax) - Russia is ready for a meeting with the U.S. administration, but the United States should also manifest readiness for dialogue, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
"I hope it will end some time. And we will decide where we will meet and what we will discuss. It's a technical issue. There are many issues, they have existed for a long time: in the sphere of economics, in the sphere of security, regional conflicts. We are ready for this discussion. We need the other side to manifest good will and readiness for constructive work," Putin said at the International Arctic Forum in Arkhangelsk on Thursday.
The parameters of a possible top-level meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump "depend to a significant extent on the U.S. side," he said.
"You see what is happening. I just don't want to get into it, you see? You are always involving me in those [internal U.S.] conflicts of yours. We see what is happening: the newly elected president is being prevented from implementing his pre-election agenda on very many issues: on healthcare, on other issues, on international affairs, on relations with Russia. We are just waiting for the situation to stabilize. And we are not interfering in it in any way," Putin said.
"It's the best indication that we did not do so in the past, either," he said.