Russian Diplomat Says U.S.-Russia Strategic Dialogue Substantive and Meaningful

Andrei Belousov, Russian Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva, told reporters in New York yesterday: “After a long break in substantive discussions related to the [strategic] dialogue—there were meetings but no substantive discussions took place under the Trump administration—now [after a Russia-U.S. summit in Geneva], a really substantive and meaningful exchange of views has begun,” he said, reported TASS. “Our colleagues in Moscow are primarily focused on this. As part of the dialogue, quite a lot of issues that the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Department of Nonproliferation and Arms Control deals with are under discussion.”