The work is about 20 Russian-American working group on cooperation in practice in all areas were frozen on the initiative of the US capital, said the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. Lavrov..
" A few years ago was created by a Presidential Commission, which was formed working groups, and among them the battle with crime, drug trafficking, economic, contacts between civil societies - 20 working groups in practice in any field of activity. All of them, as the activities of the Commission were frozen on the initiative of America, " Lavrov said in an interview.
Relations between Russia and the West deteriorated in connection with the situation in Ukraine. At the end of July, the EU and the US from point penalties against private individuals and organizations turned to measures against entire sectors of the Russian economy. At the same time an American leader Barack Obama said that North America will waive sanctions against Russia and will cooperate, if she will change the current course, and among them in Ukraine.
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