Relations have long been strained by US intelligence and law enforcement findings - denied by Moscow - that Russia tried to influence the results of the 2016 US presidential election to boost Trump’s chances of winning the White House.
SOCHI/MOSCOW - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Russia on Tuesday that Washington would brook no interference in the 2020 US presidential election and wanted Moscow to take action to show there would be no repeat of its suspected 2016 meddling.
“We’ve said many times that we also want to fully restore our relations. I hope that the necessary conditions for that to happen will now be created.” Both Lavrov and Pompeo said they shared a desire to improve battered ties despite not being able to confirm a suggestion by Trump that he would meet Putin on the sidelines of a meeting of the G20 in Japan next month.“The United States stands ready to find common ground with Russia as long as the two of us can engage seriously,” Pompeo said.
Pompeo said Trump had made clear he wanted the to try to keep the Russia relationship “on the high ground”. On Ukraine, Pompeo told Lavrov the United States would not recognise Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and would keep in place economic sanctions imposed on Russia over that move.
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