MOSCOW (HRNW) – Russia on Saturday said it does not expect progress in talks in the coming weeks with the United States on issues including visas and the size and functioning of their embassies, Russian news agencies reported.
With ties already at post-Cold War lows, Moscow and Washington are in a dispute over the number of diplomats they can post to each other s countries, though Russia has said it was willing to lift restrictions imposed in recent years.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov on Saturday said recent contacts with Washington had simply involved the two sides repeating their previously stated positions, but that a new round of talks in a third country would take place in the coming weeks.
“There is no progress and, it seems, none is expected,” Interfax cited Ryabkov as saying.
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