{"id":341275,"date":"2024-11-07T19:05:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T16:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=341275"},"modified":"2024-11-07T19:05:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T16:05:42","slug":"russia-open-to-dialogue-with-us-if-washington-takes-initiative-lavrov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=341275","title":{"rendered":"Russia open to dialogue with US if Washington takes initiative \u2014 Lavrov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ASTANA, SANA-Russia is ready for open dialogue with the United States if such an initiative comes from Washington after Donald Trump\u2019s reelection, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a news conference following his working visit to Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We have never rejected contact with anyone. President Putin stresses our position every time the topic is raised. Talking is always better than getting isolated from each other,&#8221; Russia\u2019s top diplomat told TASS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When asked if there are plans to maintain communication with the new US administration, Lavrov said &#8220;We\u2019ll see if there are any proposals, and I reiterate that it was not us who broke off relations and it\u2019s not up to us to suggest reviving those. If there is an initiative to sit down and have a frank conversation about where we are standing and how we should move forward, without any unilateral demands, we will be ready for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lavrov described the problems facing Russia-US relations as &#8220;very deep,&#8221; stemming from the perception by the American elite that any rivals in the international arena should be suppressed unless someone questions the US global dominance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Of course, this position is becoming increasingly irrelevant, given how things have evolved globally. However, the Americans continue to adhere to this ideology,&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mazen Eyon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASTANA, SANA-Russia is ready for open dialogue with the United States if such an initiative comes from Washington after Donald Trump\u2019s reelection, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a news conference following his working visit to Kazakhstan. &#8220;We have never rejected contact with anyone. President Putin stresses our position every time the topic is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":341276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6987,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-latest-news","category-news-bar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341277,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341275\/revisions\/341277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/341276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}