The spokesman of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov did not rule out that Russian leader Vladimir Putin will communicate with US President-elect Donald Trump before his inauguration.
“It is not ruled out,” the Kremlin representative told reporters, answering the question about the possibility that Putin and Trump could speak in the coming days.
“He said he would call Putin before the inauguration. These are his words, we have nothing else to say,” added Peskov, quoted by TASS.
Russia is also open to a “frank dialogue” with the United States “on how to proceed, without unilateral requests”, if the initiative comes from Washington, after the re-election of Donald Trump, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov declared in a press conference press conference at the end of his visit to Kazakhstan. “We have never rejected dialogue with anyone. Talking is always better than being isolated from each other,” he added, specifying that it was not Russia that broke off relations.
The Kremlin does not rule out the possibility of contact between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump before the tycoon takes office in the Casa Banca in January, the Interfax news agency also announced. Spokesman Dmitry Peskov, however, denied in a comment on Russian television RTVI the news that Putin was congratulated informally, “through acquaintances”. “It’s unreliable information,” he said.
Meanwhile, in the aftermath of the results of the American elections, which confirmed Donald Trump’s victory over his rival Kamala Harris, a first, albeit timid, opening comes from China.
In a congratulatory message to Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping hoped for “a stable, healthy and sustainable relationship between China and the USA is in the common interest of both countries and is in line with the expectations of the international community”. “Xi urged the two countries to find the right path to move forward together in the new era, so as to bring benefits to both countries and the whole world,” reports the Chinese news agency Xinhua, adding that Xi “has expressed the hope that the two sides will respect the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and mutually beneficial cooperation, strengthen dialogue and communication, adequately manage differences and expand mutually beneficial cooperation.”
Furthermore, Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential elections is an opportunity for the United States to reconsider the “wrong policies” of the past against Tehran. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said this, quoted by the state news agency IRNA, adding that “we have had very bitter experiences with the policies and approaches of different US governments in the past. Trump’s victory is an opportunity to review previous unjust and inadequate approaches.”
“The actions of the United States matter to us,” Baghaei added. “It is up to the Americans to elect their president and they have made their choice – he said – Our population has very negative experiences due to previous US administrations”.
Christian Meier
