RUSSIA: Winner of US poll will have to work with Foreign Minister

Record ID: 277725

  • Title: RUSSIA: Winner of US poll will have to work with Foreign Minister
  • Date: 23rd October 2012
  • Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (RECENT) (REUTERS) VARIOUS VIEWS OF KREMLIN MOSCOW, RUSSIA (OCTOBER 22, 2012) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY) (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEI LAVROV, SAYING: "As for the results of the upcoming US presidential poll, we will work with those leaders who will be in power, who will be elected by the people. There were enough ex
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  • Location: Russian Federation
  • Country: Russia
  • Topics: International Relations,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVAEW8TYYB40NLD5ZORW0SCUDCJD
  • Story Text: Winner of the upcoming presidential election in the United States will have to work with Russia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday (October 22) commenting on the remarks by the Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney who called Russia the United States' top "geopolitical foe."
    "As for the results of the upcoming US presidential poll, we will work with those leaders who will be in power, who will be elected by the people. There were enough examples in the history when campaign rhetoric went to the extremes. But when the election winner comes to work he starts dealing with real problems. Only then one can make an opinion about the true intentions of one or another administration. I am sure that no matter what will happen and who will win, the relations with Russia for any US administration will not be insignificant," said Lavrov during a meeting with the Russian Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper journalists on Monday During the latest foreign policy debate Barack Obama said the Republican presidential candidate was seeking to turn back the clock to the 1980s by once declaring Russia the top "geopolitical foe" of the United States.
    The 1980s, said Obama, were "now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because, you know, the Cold War's been over for 20 years."
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