MOSCOW, April 12. /TASS/. Washington should resolve contradictions that could lead to a direct military confrontation with Moscow in order to resume the security dialogue, Director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control Vladimir Yermakov told TASS.

"We assume that Washington has begun to realize the firmness of our position, which excludes a conversation on these issues (security issues - TASS) without meeting a number of fundamental conditions," he said. "These include the preliminary refusal of the United States from the course of undermining Russia's security and Washington's demonstration of real readiness for comprehensive work with a focus on eliminating the causes of fundamental contradictions created by the Americans, fraught with a direct military clash between our countries," he said.

At the same time, the diplomat pointed out that "no fundamentally new ideas regarding the dialogue on strategic stability and arms control have been received from the US."

Earlier, US Permanent Representative to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said that Washington was ready to hold bilateral talks with Moscow and Beijing on arms control.

In response, the Russian Foreign Ministry told TASS that the United States was engaging in hypocrisy and demagogy by offering arms control dialogue with Russia on its own terms; Moscow was ready to discuss the issue only as a single package.