Prior agreements with United States on Syria may lay foundation for fresh cooperation under Trump - Borodavkin
GENEVA. Feb 23 (Interfax) - The agreements reached between Moscow and Washington under the previous U.S. Administration may become a foundation of fresh bilateral cooperation now that U.S. President Donald Trump has taken the office, Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Office in Geneva Alexei Borodavkin said.
"Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and [former] U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry elaborated a package of documents last year; if those documents were implemented, they could promote positive cooperation between Russia and the United States, in particular, at the military level," he told reporters on Thursday.
Borodavkin regretted that did not happen "as the U.S. administration avoided cooperation under far-fetched pretexts."
"Things have changed. I believe this is the time - all the documents elaborated last year may become a foundation of bilateral anti-terrorism cooperation with the Americans," he said.
These documents are quite implementable even now, he said.
"I think they might serve as a good and reliable basis for our bilateral, including military, cooperation," Borodavkin said.