Moscow will welcome any US president willing to talk in good faith, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.
Lavrov is visiting New York, where he presided over the UN Security Council. Answering reporters’ questions on Wednesday, the Russian diplomat touched on the latest developments in the American presidential race.
“[President Vladimir] Putin has spoken about this more than once: we will work with any American leader, we will be ready to work with any American leader who is elected by the American people and who is ready for an equal, mutually respectful dialogue,” Lavrov said.
He reminded reporters that “despite very serious sanctions,” Moscow and Washington continued to talk during Donald Trump’s presidency, suggesting this might be possible again.
Trump officially lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden, whose administration began sending weapons to Ukraine and rejected Russia’s security proposal out of hand. Under Biden, the US imposed “sanctions from…