MOSCOW, June 27 Russia will continue to try to reach Washington through various diplomatic methods, including telephone conversations, said Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Ryabkov.
In conditions when the opposite side in the West is completely unable to negotiate, Moscow has no illusions about the existence of a real base today to practice classical diplomacy, the diplomat noted.
«However, now something different is happening, and it cannot be said that if a demarche is not immediately followed by one or another practical, including forceful, action, then these demarches are not needed. Notes, demonstrations of readiness and determination in a verbal way standing up for yourself and ensuring your safety is an integral element of the general counteraction to the hostile anti-Russian course pursued by the United States and its satellites. We will continue this regardless of whether we manage to reach some echelons or floors or not. including in the form of telephone conversations. Everything comes from the needs of the moment,” he said on the “60 Minutes” program on the Rossiya-1 TV channel.
«We will also use embassy channels. We act transparently, we do not hide anything. I am sure that the citizens of our country, many other participants in international processes, the world public, especially in the countries of the world majority, will clearly understand the disposition, understand our coordinate system, and they, in this global majority, sympathize with the struggle waged by the Russian people for the country, for the opportunity to follow the path that we have determined for ourselves in accordance with the line formulated by the President of the Russian Federation,” Ryabkov emphasized.