Russia should not close the US embassy despite the crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine because the world’s two biggest nuclear powers must continue to talk, the US ambassador to Moscow has been quoted as saying.
When asked whether the two countries’ embassies could be shut down, John Sullivan told the Russian state news agency TASS on Monday that such a move would be “a big mistake”.
President Vladimir Putin has presented the invasion of Ukraine as a turning point in Russian history: a revolt against the hegemony of the United States, which the president says has humiliated Russia since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union.
the US-Russia ties deteriorated over the latter’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, Sullivan told the Russian news agency that both sides are ‘never completely separating’. According to the US envoy, Washington and Kremlin cannot afford to sever the diplomatic ties ‘completely’. Sullivan added that both countries ‘should have embassies’ which is the ‘bare minimum.’
“We should have embassies in Moscow and in Washington, not just the Russian mission to the UN. I just think factually, we’ll never be able to get to that level of complete separation because we are joined as permanent members of the [UN] Security Council. And having been joined in that way we do need to continue to engage with each other despite many contested issues that we have. We see each other, speak and present on a daily basis in New York. That’s a bare minimum,” Sullivan stressed, according to TASS.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken last month quipped that he would like to dedicate Taylor Swift’s “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” to Putin.
Asked about that remark, Sullivan said: “We also will never break up entirely.”
When asked by TASS if the analogy meant that the embassies could be closed, Sullivan said: “They can there is that possibility, although I think it would be a big mistake.
“As I understand it, the Russian government has mentioned the variant of severing diplomatic relations,” he said. “We can’t just break off diplomatic relations and stop talking to each other.”
Russia’s foreign ministry has called in the Moscow bureau chiefs of US media outlets to discuss on Monday what it says are the repercussions of the United States’ unfriendly actions.
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