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Russian envoy looks forward to cooperation with new Austrian government

"We are looking forward to continuing active and constructive cooperation with Austria’s new government", Dmitry Lyubinsky said

VIENNA, January 3. /TASS/. Russian Ambassador to Vienna Dmitry Lyubinsky looks forward to constructive cooperation with Austria’s new government, as the envoy himself wrote on Facebook on Thursday.

"We are looking forward to continuing active and constructive cooperation with Austria’s new government," he said.

The Austrian People's Party and the Greens said in the 2020-2024 joint government program that the country’s new cabinet planned to boost the Sochi Dialogue public forum aimed at maintaining dialogue with Russia and called for easing sanctions on Russia if the Minsk Agreements on the Ukrainian crisis were implemented.

Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Alexander Van der Bellen of Austria agreed at their June 2018 meeting in Vienna to facilitate the establishment of the Sochi Dialogue forum in order to boost ties between the two countries’ civil societies. On May 15, 2019, Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi hosted the founding meeting of the forum. The next Sochi Dialogue meeting is scheduled to be held in the Austrian city of Salzburg in 2020. It will be dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Salzburg Festival.