The U.S. and Russia will meet in Finland

The ambassadors will discuss the situation between the two countries.

Senior diplomats from the United States and Russia will meet Finland in the beginning of next week to resolve the tension, the reason for the return to the hostility of the “cold war”.

“Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Ryabkov will meet Monday and Tuesday in Finland by Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of State for political Affairs Thomas Shannon”, – stated in the message.

Previously, Shannon and Ryabkov has already held several rounds of talks aimed at resolving the conflict issues between the US and Russia, including the closure of diplomatic missions and the expulsion of diplomats. However, they were unsuccessful.

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It is planned that next week there will be talks covering these issues and also the broader strategic relations and the issues of arms control.

As you know, in July 2017 Russia announced that equalizes the number of employees of American diplomatic missions of a number of Russian diplomats in the United States. Thus, in both countries since September 1, left for 455 employees of diplomatic missions – us state representative offices decreased by 755 people.

USA in response to the decision announced that they would suspend the work of the Russian Consulate General in San Francisco and torgpredstavitelstvo in Washington and new York. A significant downsizing of the us diplomatic mission in Russia led to the fact that the United States refused to issue visas to the Russian regions. Of treatments in Moscow, the waiting time for visas for Russians will increase significantly.

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