A group of US senators, on a visit to Moscow, say they have invited Russian lawmakers to Washington later this year, in a bid to help ease tensions between the two countries.
On the second trip by US politicians to the Russian capital in just over a month, the delegation is this time being led by high-profile Republican lawmaker senator Rand Paul.
Paul says that members of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the upper house of the Russian parliament, the Federation Council, had been invited “to come to the United States to meet with us in Washington.”
“I think this is incredibly important,” the US lawmaker has been quoted as saying in translated comments by Interfax news agency.
The “main aim of the trip” was to “create a dialogue” and “improve relations” between Moscow and Washington, Paul adds.
— AFP
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