Russia Ready To Advance Contacts With US As Washington Feels Comfortable - FM Lavrov

MOSCOW, Oct 27 (Bernama-TASS) -- Moscow is ready to continue contacts with the United States at a pace that would be comfortable for Washington, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

“After we talked with (US Secretary of State)Marco Rubio regarding following up on the results of Alaska, he did not mention any new meetings or conversations.

“I did not raise the issue because the entire initiative was coming from the United States. And we would be ready to move as the Americans feel comfortable for themselves,” Lavrov said in an interview with Hungarian YouTube channel Ultrahang, TASS news agency reported.

He said his latest phone conversation with the top US diplomat took place after the Oct 16 phone talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump.

“We had a conversation, very specific, where I reconfirmed our full adherence to what was discussed in Alaska and to what clear understandings the presidents reached at that time,” Lavrov added.

The Alaska summit took place at a military base near Anchorage in mid-August.

The meeting between the Russian and US leaders lasted about three hours, including a one-on-one discussion in the US president’s limousine en route to the venue, followed by a closed-door session with two delegation members on each side.

Following a phone call with Putin in mid-October, Trump announced that both leaders had agreed to meet soon in Budapest.

-- BERNAMA-TASS