Representatives of USA y Russia will meet this Friday at istanbul to board bilateral issues, as published by the official Russian news agency Tass, just one day after a prisoner exchange between the two countries was consummated. The meeting will focus on “difficult issues” such as alwaysthe number of diplomats accepted by the parties in their respective embassies or the work of both countries in the international institutions, according to the same source. The meeting serves to verify that beyond the ukrainian warwaged by parties on opposing sides, the two powers keep open the communication channels to address bilateral issues.
Both the Russian embassy in Washington as the American legation in Moscow They have been cutting their staff for years as a result of the expulsions of diplomats ordered by the host country, a sample of the complicated relations that both countries have maintained in the last decade. Each of these expulsions of diplomatic personnel has generally had its reply with equivalent countermeasures from the other side.
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The last known meeting between the representatives of both countries took place last November 14 in Ankarawhere they met face to face with the head of Russian foreign intelligence, Sergei Narishkin and his CIA counterpart, William Burnsin the highest level meeting since Russia invaded Ukraine in February.
Late last month, the Kremlin canceled another meeting that should have been held in Cairo this week to address the only nuclear arms reduction treaty that is kept alive between the two countries. The call New Start Treatywhich sets a ceiling of 1,500 strategic nuclear warheads held by each country, was signed in 2011. In early 2011, the presidents Joe Biden y Vladimir Putin they agreed to extend it for five more years.