The Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, US Secretary of state Mike Pompeo at a meeting in new York discussed a wide range of problems, and among them, the state of bilateral relations. As has declared to the correspondent in the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly the head of the foreign ministries spoke about the prospects of resolving the situation on the Korean Peninsula, in Afghanistan, around Ukraine, in the middle East and North Africa. in the process of negotiations Lavrov has noticed that " Russia is open for dialogue with the United States in the most different areas, but a constructive interaction can only be based on respect of interests each other." The Russian head of the Ministry showed Pompeo on "the futility of trying sanctions and any other pressure" on Moscow. It only undermines " the prospects for bilateral cooperation in addressing key global issues and undermine world security." in addition, Lavrov emphasized the Secretary of state for the unacceptability of the situation with the non-issuance of visas to members of the Russian delegation to participate in the UN General Assembly. The meeting of Lavrov and Pompeo lasted almost an hour, she was held in a closed to the press. As I said yesterday, the Russian Ambassador in Washington Anatoly Antonov, Moscow hoped that the heads of foreign policy departments will be able to concentrate on How to improve the relationship, but now they will have to start with the discussion of visas and sanctions imposed by Washington this week. yesterday the US Treasury Department imposed penalties against three managers of the company "Sovfraht" - Ivan Okorokova, Karen Stepanyan and Ilya Loginov. Washington has decided that they violated the sanctions regime against Syria as he participated in the scheme for the delivery to Syria of jet fuel for the Russian VKS. on Smolensk square said that North America", openly sided with the terrorists ", As the Russian military help of the Syrian army in the battle against the militants. Also before it appeared that a number of members of the Russian delegation has not received a us visa to attend the high level week of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly. The official representative of the foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova called "untenable" explanation of the US capital, according to which the situation has a " technical character ". <span style="color:darkgray