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Helsinki summit will intensify Russia-US dialogue in the UN Security Council - Russia’s UN ambassador

UNITED NATIONS, June, 29. /TASS/. The meeting of US and Russian Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on July 16 in Helsinki will open up opportunities for more fruitful cooperation between Moscow and Washington in the UN Security Council, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia told a news conference on Thursday. The news conference focused on the results of Russia’s presidency in the UN Security Council in June. When asked if the atmosphere of the UN Security Council debates resembles the Cold War and whether he expects a more fruitful dialogue with the US partners after the Helsinki summit, the Russian diplomat said: "What are we living through is it a new cold war - it is difficult to say because we are living in a different world. The world of the cold war was when we lived through the Cold war in in the 1960s and 1970s. The world of the cold war was very predictable: everybody knew the limits, how to talk to a partner or to an enemy even. Now it is much more complicated because the world is becoming multipolar…" Nebenzia said he would not call the current situation in the world "a cold war." "So I would not call it a cold war. It is different kind of an adjective that we should use for what is happening now. What is happening now is of course not healthy. We hope that to a certain extend it is just a beginning and it should be followed up by a much more intense dialogue on every level not only on presidential level," he said. "I hope that common sense will prevail. We need each other. We don’t want to be loved. We simply need to hold normal pragmatic relations with a major country upon which likewise upon us a lot in the world depends," he concluded. The Kremlin had said earlier that the Russia-US summit would take place in the Finnish capital on July 16. Washington confirmed the date for the summit and its venue. Putin and Trump held their first-ever talks on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg on July 7, 2017. Later in November, Putin and Trump did not have a separate bilateral meeting during the APEC summit in Vietnam, but they did have a word on the sidelines of the forum and approved a joint statement on Syria. For nearly eighteen months in office as US president, Trump has talked to Putin several times by phone. The latest phone call took place on March 20, 2018. Read more

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