Moscow sees nothing new in Congress banning cooperation between military of two countries

The Congresses ban of cooperation between Russian and US military is nothing new, contacts in that sphere have been limited by the mechanism of preventing incidents in the air, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday.


"Nothing new here, the Congress adopted a similar law last year, too," he said. "In Pentagon’s last year budget was a ban for contacts between military authorities, though that law gave the right to the US president to allow contacts between the military."

"Stable contacts between the Russian and US military are only under the agreement on avoiding incidents in the air," the foreign minister continued. "This agreement continues working, and it works well and smoothly, according to the common view."

"Unfortunately, as for fighting terrorism, we lack coherence of the kind.".
  [tass.com]
3/12/16
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