The president’s “chief spy” had a meeting with the director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) William Burns this week in Turkey Vladimir Putin and they discussed “sensitive” issues as Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday (17/11).
Burns drew attention to Sergei Naryskin, head of the Russian foreign intelligence service SVR, on the consequences of the possible use of nuclear weapons and on the risks to strategic stability, according to the American side.
It was the first high-level, direct US-Russia contact that has been made public since the war in Ukraine began. Burns, a former US ambassador to Russia, was sent to Moscow in late 2021 by President Joe Biden to draw attention to Putin about Moscow’s troop buildup around Ukraine.
“The contact (between Burns and Naryskin) was initiated by the American side,” Ryabkov told RTV1. “The issues discussed there were of a sensitive nature,” he added.
“The dialogue continues, but it does not have a systematic nature,” he said, as reported by the Athens News Agency. “But we are not standing with our hats in our hands: the Americans need dialogue with us just as much as we need themhe added.
Ryabkov said another contact with the United States will take place later this month, when a bilateral advisory committee on the New START arms treaty convenes on November 29 in Cairo.
Source: News Beast
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