MOSCOW. Feb 28 (Interfax) - The Kremlin has referred questions about U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to Central Asian countries to the Russian Foreign Ministry, adding that Moscow has been developing its own cooperation formats with the region's states.
"I'd prefer not to comment on the U.S. secretary of state's visits. I'm the press secretary of the [Russian] president, after all. It is the prerogative of my colleagues in the Foreign Ministry," Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters after being asked to comment on Blinken's trip.
"On the whole, you know that we have our own bilateral relations with the Central Asian countries, we have our own interaction formats, we participate in the Eurasian Economic Union integration processes with some of them. This is what we are guided by, this is what we are interested in, and this is what we see as our main foreign policy priority," Peskov said.
Blinken began his visit to Kazakhstan on Tuesday. He will then travel to Uzbekistan.