Sergei Ryabkov
The question of the return of diplomatic property, which U.S. President Barack Obama before his leaving office was seized, according to preliminary data, close to resolution, reports CNN.
Monday, July 17, Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Ryabkov in Washington met with U.S. Undersecretary of state for political Affairs Thomas Shannon to discuss this problem.
When Ryabkov left the state Department after more than two and a half hours of negotiations, one of the reporters asked him: “You have returned my property?” The Russian diplomat replied: “Almost, almost.” Shannon didn’t say anything.
Earlier on Monday, press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that Washington needs to return the real estate, without Moscow, no conditions. He commented on the statement of a senior official of the White house that the American authorities will demand “something in return”.
The outgoing administration of U.S. President Barack Obama at the end of December 2016 closed Russian depravation access to two residential complexes, the so — called suburban dachas of Russia’s permanent mission in new York and the Russian Embassy in Washington.