US President Donald Trump and Russia President Putin.
Istanbul: Close to relationship between Russia and America is steadily increasing. It is being seen as a new beginning and new world order amidst Russia-US relations after US President Donald Trump came to power. At the same time, China is looking at the deep relationship between America and Russia with anxiety. Meanwhile, the United States and Russia have held talks here on Thursday to discuss the re-operation of their respective embassies after expelting each other’s diplomats. This is being seen as a major step to improve Russia-US relations.
According to experts, Donald Trump wants to weaken China by increasing close to Russia. It is part of the new and circumstantial strategy of America. Russian Rashtrapati Bhavan ‘Kremlin’ spokesman Dimitri Peskov said that the talks in Istanbul took place after US President Donald Trump’s conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the agreed between the top Russian and American diplomats and other senior officials in Saudi Arabia. Through the US-Russia talks in Riyadh last week, a significant change in Washington’s foreign policy led by Trump and a clear separation from American-led efforts to isolate Russia over war in Ukraine.
Dialogue begins between Russia-America in Riyadh
In Riyadh, Moscow and Washington agreed to end work towards ending the war and improving their diplomatic and economic relations. It also includes restoration of personnel in embassies. In recent years, the operation of embassies has been badly affected due to a large number of mutual exclusion of a large number of diplomats, the closure of offices and other restrictions. An American embassy official in Ankara confirmed that issues affecting the operation of the relevant diplomatic missions in Istanbul would be considered.
Valentina Matvianco, president of the Upper House of the Russian Parliament, said during the Turki visit on Thursday that the US-Russia talks will “help to restore the complete functioning of our diplomatic missions.” No Ukrainian officer was present in the last week’s talks. Kremlin emphasized that this meeting is to restore relations and talks with the US, which would eventually pave the way for peace talks. (AP)
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