Russian Ambassador to U.S. complains that congressmen do not want to meet with him
Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Antonov said that he regularly receives refusals to inquiries about meeting with congressmen, RIA Novosti reported.
“I can tell you that all my requests to the Congress have been refused. I am very happy for Mr. Huntsman, (U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Huntsman) that our parliamentarians warmly welcomed him. They expressed their willingness to work with him. Perhaps movement from our side will be able to move the situation from dead center,” Antonov said.
In August 2017, after signing the law on sanctions against Russia, U.S. President Donald Trump attacked the congressmen and blamed them for the deterioration of relations with Russia. At that time, he said that the relationship between Washington and Moscow is “at a dangerously low point.”
Antonov’s predecessor, Sergey Kislyak, who was Ambassador to the United States from 2008 to 2017, after returning to Moscow, described the atmosphere in which he had to work as “poisoned.”
He explained that working with the administration of U.S. President Trump is “not easy” because of the internal political conflicts in the United States.