ANTALYA, June 30. /TASS/. While Russia has offered the US to begin an extensive dialogue on cybersecurity, the US side has instead urged Moscow to first find the hackers, who attacked a pipeline and meat processors in the US, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a news conference on Wednesday.
"We proposed a detailed, major dialogue on cybersecurity. Immediately after Geneva, American colleagues began to say: no, first you arrest and punish the hackers, who were breaking into our pipeline, our meatpackers. This is a somewhat different matter, you see," he said.
In such situations, Moscow is used to maintaining a dialogue by moving from the general to the particular, Lavrov added. "We are ready for ‘from the particular to the general’ if we take all particularities, including the attacks on our resources that take place daily," the Russian foreign minister stressed, adding that otherwise, the approach suggested by Washington "is once again a bit unbalanced".
At his news conference after talks with US President Joe Biden, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that Moscow and Washington could agree on the rules of conduct on the tracks of strategic stability, cybersecurity and regional conflicts. Washington, for its part, said after the summit that the US saw cooperation with Russia in the fight against cybercriminals as possible.