MOSCOW, May 21. /TASS/. Russia is positive about US President Joe Biden’s proposal for a meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at the marathon New Knowledge on Friday.
"We are positive about President Biden’s proposal for holding a meeting with President Putin," he said.
Lavrov pointed out that Russian-US relations were complicated at the moment, but the two sides must work together.
"You can see for yourself the heaps of problems that have piled up over the years of the Barack Obama presidencies and the Donald Trump presidency, contrary to all of the latter’s statements about the need for getting along with Russia," Lavrov said. "The administration and government structures did not allow him to do that and systematically worsened our relations. So many things have piled up that it will be no easy to clear it up."
Lavrov stressed that Moscow was open to cooperation with Washington.
On April 13, Putin and Biden held a telephone conversation at Washington’s initiative, a second one since the current head of state took office. The US president invited the Russian leader to hold a face-to-face meeting in a third country within months. For its part, Moscow said that it was prepared for a dialogue with Washington on the condition of mutual respect.