Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov said in an interview with Bloomberg Television yesterday that US-Russia strategic stability talks will begin in a few weeks in Geneva.
“Very soon, in a few weeks in Europe, there will be a round of consultations between senior officials of the United States and Russia on this issue. We have to sit together, we have to realize what kind of threats we face,” he said.
“I don’t know how long we’ll be on our way to a compromise… I hope that everything will be fine and our teams will reach a compromise,” he said when asked to assess the prospects of Russia-US dialogue on arms control.
Regarding the recent summit between presidents Putin and Biden, he said, “It seems to me that the positive results of the American summit in Geneva give us a fresh opportunity to stabilize relations of the two nations,” he said. He added that Russia has no time for a confrontation with the US. “We are permanent members of the UN Security Council, and we have no time to quarrel with the United States,” he noted.
In the same interview he said Russia was not involved in cyber attacks against US companies. “Regarding what you have just mentioned about the recent attack on the United States and other Western countries’ infrastructure, I would like to say that Russia didn’t participate in such attack; Russia didn’t stay behind the curtain of such attacks,” he said. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov meanwhile told journalists, according to TASS, that “a mechanism for expert dialogue on cybersecurity issues would be launched soon, with the aim of discussing attacks, the overall level of cyber threats, and issues related to critical infrastructure.”
