Expressing Russia’s concern over recent statements by President Joe Biden at the Munich Security Conference, Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, Dmitry Polyanskiy, told a briefing Wednesday: “They [Biden’s remarks—TASS] are naturally giving cause for concerns about how we will substantially cooperate with the US.” The Russian diplomat emphasized that “the logic of containing Russia … of Russia being an enemy” is still there and, therefore, “it’s very difficult to imagine how the interaction with us might change with such starting positions of the new administration.”
Nonetheless, he said, as far as Russia is concerned, cooperation between Russia and the US should go forward. “It takes two to tango, we are ready to dance, but we need a good and reliable partner who knows all the moves and respects us as a country,” he concluded.
