MOSCOW. June 25 (Interfax) - United States senators planning to visit Russia within the next few days have asked for a meeting with Russian Federation Council Chairperson Valentina Matviyenko, but she will be abroad at the time, and so the senators have been offered meetings at other levels, Federation Council Foreign Affairs Committee head Konstantin Kosachyov said.
"We have informed the American side that a meeting at the level of the Federation Council chairperson is impossible, as the Federation Council chairperson will be on a foreign trip. But we reaffirmed our willingness to meet at other levels, and let's see now how they will react to that. We haven't received a response yet," Kosachyov told journalists on Monday.
The U.S. senators are to arrive in Moscow on the evening of July 2 and would stay there on July 3 and 4, Kosachyov said. Before that, they would visit St. Petersburg.
All five of the U.S. senators have been granted entry visas to come to Russia, he said.
"These are five Republican senators, and I don't know whether all of them will be here," he said.