Deputy Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation Sergey Ryabkov Interview with the newspaper Izvestia said that progress on the main issues of the normalization of the work of the diplomatic structures of Russia and the United States in the dialogue of the parties is not yet fixed.
“Unfortunately, there is no progress on the main issues,” Ryabkov rated. So he appreciated the progress in the work on the normalization of diplomatic relations.
According to him, the main issues are “an unacceptable no reasonable requirement of the United States to limit the three years of the period of staying our dipsothers in long business trips.” “They are faced with similar requirements,” said Ryabkov.
At the same time, the Ryabkov stressed that the contacts were indeed intensified, specialized meetings of high-ranking representatives on these issues were conducted. In addition, he noted that discussions do not stop and are conducted on a weekly basis. “This is not an exaggeration, sometimes it happens that several times a week, depending on the situation through the embassies,” he noted.
In December, the Deputy Official Representative of the United Nations Secondary General (United Nations), Farchhan Hack, said that the United States should not interfere with the work of accredited diplomatic staff. Hack responded to the call of the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Zakharova to ensure that the UN initiated the procedure for arbitration against the United States due to delays with the issuance of visas and the captured dipstick of Russia.