Lavrov hopes Russian-U.S. relations won't be aggravated further
MOSCOW. Oct 20 (Interfax) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov disagrees that current Russian-U.S. relations can be characterized as "a cold war."
"Of course, it's not a 'cold war.' It would be more correct to ask where these relations are going. You know they have declined considerably. I really hope that this decrease in the level of interaction has reached some lowest point, at least now there is no further decrease, but there have been no attempts to improve relations, either," Lavrov said in Moscow on Monday.
Lavrov said the frequent meetings at the level of the Russian Foreign Ministry and the U.AS. Department of State show that the U.S. understands that the current relations between the two countries are "not normal."
Lavrov's meeting with his U.S. counterpart John Kerry in Paris last week was their 13th meeting this year.
Lavrov recalled that the operation of the bilateral presidential commission was halted on the U.S. initiative. "What suffers from it? Specific programs, specific issues that need to be resolved and the resolution of which is in the interest of Russia, the U.S. and many other countries," he said.
