U.S., Russia to tone down rhetoric
Moscow and Washington have agreed to moderate their rhetoric in a bid to improve strained ties, Russian FM Lavrov has said.
Tuesday, 15.05.2007.
15:58
U.S., Russia to tone down rhetoric
He said that Putin and Rice also discussed current events adding that Russia confirmed its stance on nuclear missile defense.As for Kosovo, "we agreed to seek solutions that would suit everyone but unfortunately so far there have been no signs of such solutions," Lavrov said.
Several top Russian officials indicated ahead of Rice's visit that Russia wanted good relations with Washington but would not compromise on missile defense or Kosovo.
Russia says it does not see a threat that requires a missile shield in Europe, and argues that to force Serbia to give up Kosovo sets a bad precedent.
Kosovo's fate may also come up when German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier meets Putin to discuss a growing list of disputes involving Russia and new European Union members that were once in the Soviet orbit.
Steinmeier made an unscheduled visit to Russia Tuesday days before a Russia-EU meeting that is expected to be contentious. German Chancellor Angela Merkel will lead an EU delegation on Friday to the meeting with Putin in the Russian city of Samara.
"We are both interested in overcoming our differences, and sometimes even collisions, and not letting them become major political conflicts," Frank-Walter Steinmeier, whose country holds the EU presidency, said at the start of talks at Putin's residence outside Moscow.
Steinmeier conceded the day before that it was unlikely Russia and the EU would agree at the summit to start negotiations on an ambitious new partnership pact, due to cover trade, energy, human rights and foreign policy.
The presence of both German and U.S. foreign ministers in Moscow on the same day underlines Western concern about relations during a period in which Putin has adopted a more confrontational stance toward the United States and Europe.
Rice is the third top U.S. official to visit Moscow since Putin made a speech in Munich in February in which he accused the United States of seeking to impose its will on the world.
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