The building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Archival photoMOSCOW, Aug. 1The United States and the European Union, under far-fetched pretexts, froze dialogue with Moscow on combating terrorism, Director of the Department for New Challenges and Threats at the Foreign Ministry Vladimir Tarabrin said in an interview with RIA Novosti. «Cooperation between Russia and the United States in the field of anti-terror is now actually frozen,» he said. Tarabrin recalled that Washington, under a far-fetched pretext, unilaterally decided to suspend profile meetings as part of a high-level dialogue under the auspices of the foreign ministries of Russia and the United States, which were held in 2018-2019 in Vienna, despite their benefits for both sides. «A similar situation has developed with the European Union through its fault,» he added. The last round of consultations with the EU on counterterrorism took place in October 2019, he specified. that we need such a dialogue no more than Westerners, and if someone is not ready for it due to their own phobias and distorted ideas about its equal basis ve, then this is no longer our problem,” Tarabrin concluded.
