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Tuesday, November 6, 2018
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Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Lavrov hopes midterms ease tensions with US
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleRussia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says he hopes the outcome of the US midterm election will ease domestic tensions in the United States and enable Washington to focus on global issues.
Speaking to reporters in Madrid on Tuesday, Lavrov laments that Russian-American ties have become “hostage to internal political squabbles in America.”
Lavrov said he is hopeful that the election will help stabilize domestic politics in the US “so that Washington could concentrate on some positive steps on the international arena.”
Lavrov also reiterates Moscow’s position that it is not meddling in US elections.
“All the accusations that we will be meddling in today’s elections turned out to be empty statements,” he says.
— AP
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