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Russia is interested in maintaining an agreement with the United States on medium and smaller missiles, but Washington suspects of violation of its provisions. This was stated by Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavroa following negotiations with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, according to the website of the Foreign Ministry.

"We have suspicions of at least three positions in the fact that the Americans create combat systems that violate or may violate the obligations taken under the contract. We honestly present their concern, the Americans also make us claims, but cannot specifically justify that they were alarmed," the minister said.

Lavrov made a statement due to the fact that the US Senate approved the amendment to the defense budget, which allows the United States from the RSMD agreement. “You can leave the agreement without any amendment, without any congress. This is provided for by any agreement, including an agreement on missiles of a lower and medium -range,” the minister said. “In any case, the conversation must be conducted. And the position of Congress remains the position of the congress.”

Lavrov also stated that the position of Moscow on the introduction of the UN peacekeepers in the Donbass remains unchanged. "The peacekeepers will protect the OSCE SMM and only when the observers performing functions arising from the Minsk agreements. Any other purpose of the peacekeeping mission will mean to cross out these agreements," the minister said.

In addition, Lavrov also commented on the state of Russian-American relations. “It is clear that we need to correct these relations. We did not start this spiral of mutual not very positive actions. We are interested in returning to the normal state of bilateral ties,” the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized.

This is the second meeting of Lavrov and Tillerson. On Monday, the head of the diplomatic departments of Russia and the United States held negotiations in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. The situation in Syria, as well as in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as the implementation of the Minsk agreements, was discussed.

On July 8, the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives of the US Congress, Ed Royce, made an amendment to the draft budget on the national defense for 2018 on the introduction of new sanctions against Russia for violation of an agreement on medium and low -range missiles . "For many years, Vladimir Putin clearly ignores Russia's obligations under an RSMD agreement. The recent deployment of prohibited nuclear weapons forbidden to him is a serious threat to the interests of the US national security. This is another example of Russian aggression, which undermines global stability," Roice said.

According to the Republican, the amendment will limit the ability of Russia to "produce advanced ordinary weapons and affect the sponsored state of terrorism that buy them." If it was not specified what kind of restrictive measures Royce offers.