MOSCOW. Nov 9 (Interfax) - The new U.S. administration is to devise its priorities in the area of foreign policy; not a single U.S. presidential candidate suggested an integral foreign political program during the election race, the former Russian foreign minister and Russian Council on International Affairs (RSMD) president, Igor Ivanov, said.

"Unfortunately, the election campaign looked rather like a contest in terms of mutual accusations. Not a single candidate offered an integral program of actions in the area of foreign policy. And the world was certainly waiting for such a program. We can only hope that the election passions will subside and the new administration will formulate its foreign political priorities," Ivanov said in an interview with Interfax, asked whether the election returns will influence U.S. foreign policy.

The former minister also congratulated Donald Trump on his win at the presidential election. "The election campaign has been extremely complicated, tense, exhaustive: the victory to the president-elect, in his own words, has been very uneasy and thereby the price of this victory is higher," he said.

"At the same time I would like to congratulate the American people. Many discussions have been recently heard regarding the imperfection of American democracy, the American electoral system. It is really imperfect. And where is it imperfect?" Ivanov also said.

"The American elector showed that despite such imperfections, the active role in the election process of the official establishment, mass media, big business, he has an opportunity to make use of his chance to make his choice," he said. "And the American people have made their choice," the RSMD head said.

Ivanov also said that Russian "media for some reasons or other insistently describe Trump as a