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Lavrov tells Pompeo in phone call US ‘destructive’ approach is blocking cooperation ‘Destructive’ US approach is blocking cooperation, Lavrov tells Pompeo during phone call
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that Washington’s “destructive” approach to ties with Moscow was impeding bilateral cooperation, according to the Foreign Ministry in Moscow. In a phone call on Thursday, Lavrov also called for an immediate end to the prosecution of Russian citizen Maria Butina “under a far-fetched pretext and again drew attention to the situation with Yaroshenko, Bout and other Russians who are in US prisons in violation of the procedures stipulated by the bilateral 1999 treaty on mutual legal assistance,” the ministry said. It added that Pompeo raised the issue of Ukrainian national Oleg Sentsov “serving his sentence on charges of terrorist activity, with appropriate explanations provided to him,” TASS reports. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has told US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that Washington’s “destructive” approach towards ties with Moscow is impeding bilateral cooperation. In a phone call on Thursday, Lavrov also called for an immediate end to the prosecution of Russian citizen Maria Butina “under a far-fetched pretext and again drew attention to the situation with [Konstantin] Yaroshenko, [Viktor] Bout and other Russians who are in US prisons in violation of the procedures stipulated by the bilateral 1999 treaty on mutual legal assistance,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said. It added that Pompeo raised the issue of Ukrainian national Oleg Sentsov “serving his sentence on charges of terrorist activity, with appropriate explanations provided to him,” TASS reports.