FAIRBANKS (Alaska). May 12 (Interfax) - Russia leaves it up to U.S. President Donald Trump and his team to decide on formats for developing bilateral relations and is ready to act to an extent that is convenient to the new U.S. administration, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
"It is known that the presidential commission was a useful instrument, but since the new administration is now in place, we are leaving it up to Donald Trump and his officials to decide on forms in which it is more convenient to develop relations with the Russian Federation. At the meeting at the White House yesterday, Donald Trump reaffirmed his stance - and he later also wrote it on Twitter - in favor of normalization of relations," Lavrov told reporters in Alaska on Friday.
"We will be ready to act to an extent and as promptly as it will be convenient to the administration, which is still just forming its team, including its foreign policy team," he said.
Lavrov also said that during the meeting in Washington, Trump and he had not discussed the possibility of reviving the presidential commission, whose work was suspended by Barack Obama's administration.