MOSCOW, October 14. /TASS/. Washington has informed Moscow the US will not be able to receive a top-level Russian delegation to discuss the Syrian crisis resolution, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday.
"We’ve made Americans the proposal announced by President Vladimir Putin yesterday. We suggested that they send a [US] military delegation to Moscow to coordinate a number of joint steps, and after that we could have sent to Washington a top-level delegation led by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev," Lavrov said addressing the Russian State Duma.
He said the proposal had been made at the United Nations in late September.
Lavrov said the US side was ready "to coordinate measure to prevent air accidents in the crisis region."
"Today we got a reply that they cannot send a delegation to Moscow and receive a [Russian] delegation in Washington," he said. "American colleagues are interested only in steps that could help avoid such accidents."
The minister added that the US refusal to cooperate to destroy the Islamic State terrorists raised certain concerns.
Russia received no requests from other countries to use aerospace force to fight IS
According to the top diplomat, Russia has not received any new requests from other countries for using its aerospace forces in the struggle against the Islamic State.
"There have been no formal requests," Lavrov said. "If there are any, decisions will be made by the supreme commander-in-chief with the Defense Ministry taking part as a professional agency."
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