TASS: Kremlin believes "due to inertia, improving Russia-US relations still needs time"
TASS Moscow, August 6th: Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS that due to the significant inertia caused by the unprecedented deterioration of relations between the two countries during President Joe Biden's term, it will take time to improve Russia-US relations.
The report said that Peskov pointed out that under Biden's administration, the relationship between Moscow and Washington had "unprecedented deterioration." "Of course, there is inertia in this process. Implementation of attempts to put bilateral relations on a normal track will take time," he said (Peskov pointed at the "unprecedented deterioration" of relations between Moscow and Washington under Biden. "Of course, there is inertia in this process. Implementation of attempts to put bilateral relations on a normal track will take time," he said).
The report said that according to TASS calculations, six months and 16 days have passed since the new US president took office, but there has been no personal meeting between Trump and the Russian leader yet. This is unprecedented in modern Russian history. Before that, the longest waiting time was for the meeting between Putin and Trump, which took five months and 18 days during this American leader's first term. In other years, the average waiting time for Russia-US summits was one to five months.
The report said that after the current US president Trump was elected, he stated his intention to improve relations with Russia. The new US leader emphasized the importance of the prospect of meeting with Putin. However, as the Kremlin emphasized, the summit should be the result of many bilateral efforts, not the summit first. Despite this, since the beginning of this year, the leaders have maintained contact and have already held six phone calls.
The report said that Peskov told TASS that during Biden's presidency, the relationship between Russia and the US deteriorated unprecedentedly, so it is not surprising that there has been a record-long absence of a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and American leader Donald Trump (so the record-long absence of a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and American leader Donald Trump is not surprising).
"It is unlikely that people would talk about a special situation. After all, under the previous (US) government, our bilateral relations experienced unprecedented deterioration," Peskov said.
The original title of the report is "Overcoming inertia in Russia-US relations takes time — Kremlin" (Kremlin: Overcoming inertia in Russia-US relations takes time).
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