White house: US very want to cooperate with Russia

The US " is rather like to cooperate with Russia wherever It may be, " said Deputy assistant to the President for national security Ben Rhodes.
" It is important to note that even in this very difficult period the head of Obama and the head of Putin deliberately maintain contacts, - he said.- Their ability quite frankly, to talk with each other is important. It opens space for diplomacy and, hopefully, ease tensions in Ukraine ". Advisor to the US President reminded that he continuously coordinate efforts with colleagues from Germany, France, Italy, great Britain. This is true for Their contacts with the Russian leader, he said, transfers ITAR-TASS. On the situation in Ukraine between the USA and Russia " At present there are quite substantial differences ", summarized the Commissioner of the White house, by position is Deputy head of the apparatus of the state security Council of the USA, and in the present - trusted Advisor and main foreign policy speechwriter for President Obama. But, according to him, the United States believes that " the door to diplomacy must be open ". As an example of Rhodes led cooperation between the U.S. and Russia at the talks of the six international mediators with Iran over its nuclear program. Summed up its own response authorized the White house traditional mention that in us-Russian relations and there will be " as areas of cooperation and discord ". Currently these differences, according to him, " have become particularly acute " due to the fall in Ukraine, " But they are rooted not in the United States as " punish " Russia ", said Rhodes." Their root in our belief that countries must have the opportunity to decide for themselves whether, Ukraine, Moldova or any other country ", - he explained his idea.


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