MOSCOW. April 16 (Interfax) - Moscow is hoping that after the strikes on Syria, the United States will try to intensify its dialogue with Russia on strategic stability, Vladimir Yermakov, the director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Department for Nonproliferation and Arms Control, said.
"There is every reason to believe that after the U.S. strikes on Syria, the Americans will go for strategic dialogue with certain zeal," Yermakov said when speaking at an assembly of the Council of Foreign and Defense Policy.
"One clearly shouldn't say that things are kind of bad, that the Americans have closed up completely or that they are demonstrating no willingness to maintain the strategic dialogue. There are certain people in the U.S. administration with whom it is possible to talk," he said.
"The dialogue may be not quite visible and less understandable now that it is absolutely unpredic1table, but it is maintained on a daily basis," Yermakov said.
In commenting on the U.S. strikes on Syria, the Russian diplomat said: "A leading nuclear power has carried out a massive missile strike against another state, without the approval of the UN Security Council, in violation of its own national laws and under an absolutely far-fetched pretext."