The U.S. has canceled the planned next meeting of the U.S. and Russia, according to Russia’s Foreign Ministry. Previous meetings this year have been to re-establish normal diplomatic exchanges. As TASS reported, the spokeswoman for the Ministry, Maria Zakharova, announced: “Today, the next meeting within the framework of bilateral consultations on eliminating ‘irritants’ in order to normalize the activities of diplomatic missions of both countries has been cancelled at the initiative of American negotiators. We hope that the pause they have taken will not be too long.”
One such “irritant” is the Russian property that the Biden administration had confiscated. The Russian side is supposed to have access to these properties to inspect the conditions of the facilities and to have the property returned.
