MOSCOW. May 6 (Interfax-AVN) - Moscow welcomes a trend toward warmer relations between Russia and the U.S., said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
"A warmer atmosphere in Russian-American relations is a factor that we welcome. We have always favored an appropriate, mutually respectful, and equal dialogue with our U.S. partners, a dialogue that would embrace virtually all major international problems and help Moscow and Washington do some useful work, and a dialogue based on a joint analysis of the situation rather than some unilateral approaches that the Bush administration was given to," Lavrov said in an interview published on the Russian Foreign Ministry website on Wednesday.
Moscow expects "the atmosphere that has been in place with the Barack Obama administration coming to power in the U.S. should promote this joint work in practice," he said.
"We will see if this is true in the near future, in the course of preparations for a first summit of President Medvedev and President Obama planned for July this year in Moscow," he said.