MOSCOW, October 28. /TASS/. Moscow expects that Washington won’t disavow dialogues on cyber security and anti-terror fight, which were agreed at the first talks between Russian and US leaders Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in July 2017 in Hamburg, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with the program "Moscow. Kremlin. Putin" on Rossiya 1 TV channel.
During the hour-and-a-half long dinner between US National Security Adviser John Bolton and the Russian leadership in Moscow earlier this week, the sides discussed progress on these agreements, Russia’s top diplomat said.
"At his press conference after talks Bolton said that there was an agreement to work on the problem of terrorism and look at how and what we can do to ensure cyber security, announcing that a business council should be created," Lavrov said. "All these three directions were discussed in Hamburg a year and a half ago, in July, on the sidelines of the G20 summit, when Presidents Putin and Trump met for the first time for a long discussion."
Unfortunately, no progress has been made on the issues of cyber security and anti-terror fight and the business council, although Bolton confirmed that Trump wants to implement these agreements, Lavrov said. "We welcome this, but we don’t want any repetition of a story after Hamburg and Helsinki, when a principal agreement on a whole number of important issues (not on any particular deal but just on resuming the channels of considering problems) was later disavowed by the Washington administration although Trump had backed these approaches. Let’s see how this happens this time.".