MOSCOW. March 12 (Interfax) - Russian Federation Council Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Konstantin Kosachyov has positively assessed a letter sent to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson by several U.S. senators calling for the start of talks with Russia on strategic stability.
"This news is encouraging. After many months and even years of strongly worded rhetoric from American Congress members and senators against Russia, even including demands to break up relations, we now see signs of "positive", not "negative", parliamentary pressure on the president of the U.S., not the president of our country," Kosachyov wrote on his Facebook page.
Hopefully, "this reasonable interpretation of [Russian President Vladimir] Putin's address to the Federal Assembly of Russia will be followed by the same appropriate and reasonable modification of U.S. policy on strategic stability and collective security," he said.
Four U.S. senators, among them three members of the Democratic Party and one independent senator, earlier forwarded a letter to Tillerson calling for the resumption of strategic stability dialogue with Russia after Putin unveiled Russia's latest developments in the area of missile and nuclear weapons in his recent address to the Federal Assembly.