Putin said Russia has not lost the desire to improve relations with the US Moscow, December 23 (IANS) Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview that Russia has not lost the desire to improve its relations with the US. . According to the Xinhua news agency report, Putin on Sunday, while responding to a question asked by Pavel Zarubin from journalist Pavel Zarubin of Russia's state TV and radio company VGTRK about the prospects of improving Russia-US relations, said, “If there is a desire.” So everything can be done. We have never lost this desire.” The Russian president was responding to a question about the possibility of Russia and the United States normalizing their relations, Russian news agency TASS reported.
Putin said Russia is ready to build ties with other countries, provided such efforts do not compromise Russian interests. “If we establish relations with anyone, we will do so only on the basis of Russian state interests,” he said. Putin cited the example of the 19th and 20th centuries to emphasize the changes in international relations and recalled that after the Crimean War of 1853-1856, when a number of sanctions were imposed on Russia, the then Foreign Minister of the Russian Empire Alexander Gorchakov sent a letter with the following words:
“Russia is not angry. Russia is focusing its attention.” “Gradually, as Russia shifted its focus, returned all its rights to the Black Sea, became stronger and so on,” Putin said. Last week, Russia issued an advisory to its citizens, warning them not to travel to the US and other Western countries, Al Jazeera reported, claiming that authorities in those states would ” Can “hunt”. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova was quoted by the outlet as saying US-Russia relations were “on the brink of collapse.”
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