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Russian Senate speaker points to intense preparations for meeting between Putin and Trump

According to Matviyenko, Russia is interested in restoring full-fledge bilateral relations with the US

MOSCOW, February 15. /TASS/. Moscow expects a positive agenda to be shaped for the upcoming meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump, Speaker of the Russian Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko told reporters.

When asked about the possibility of resetting bilateral relations, she said that intense preparations for the two leaders’ meeting were underway.

"A meeting between the Russian and the US president has been agreed on, intensive work on its agenda is underway, we intend to make the agenda positive," the Russian Senate speaker said.

According to Matviyenko, Russia is interested in restoring full-fledge bilateral relations. "We want to restore full-fledged political and economic ties as well as relations in all other spheres. We expect the United Nations to adopt the same approach," she added. At the same time, Matviyenko noted that the restoration of relations was a long process as relations could not be reset immediately.