MOSCOW. June 13 (Interfax) - Russia-U.S. relations are getting worse yet Moscow hopes to find constructive solutions to global economic problems at the G20 Osaka summit, President Vladimir Putin told the television company Mir ahead of his visits to Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan for summits of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA).
The president described the level of Russia-China cooperation as unprecedented.
"We are making a substantial contribution to the provision of world peace and security, not just in the region where our countries are situated but also in the world at large, and are coordinating our activity as permanent members of the UN Security Council. Unfortunately, we cannot say the same about our relations with the United States," Putin said.
"These [relations] are degrading and getting worse. The incumbent administration has made several dozen decisions regarding sanctions against Russia in recent years," he said.
Speaking of the trade dispute between China and the United States, Putin said, "We are confident that any actions eroding the architecture of international economic relations, which has been built over decades, are damaging all participants in the economic activity."
"So we are hopefully that common sense will win in the end. We are expecting to find constructive solutions and to create stable conditions for economic cooperation together with all partners, including the Americans, at the approaching G20 summit," Putin said.