Russia and the United States have a lot to talk about, including Venezuela, Syria, Iran, China and nuclear weapons.
By Anton Troianovski Anton Troianovski Moscow bureau chief covering Russia Email Bio Follow May 14 at 8:51 AM SOCHI, Russia — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in this Black Sea resort city on Tuesday, intensifying a high-stakes round of diplomacy as Moscow and Washington wrangle over a raft of crises around the globe.
And they may face questions over the sustainability of a U.S.-Russian dialogue at a time when many Trump administration critics in the United States say the White House still has not done enough to respond to Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The issue went unmentioned in Lavrov and Pompeo’s opening remarks.
The United States backed out of a Cold War-era treaty with Russia limiting short- and medium-range ground-based missiles this year, citing Russian violations. Pompeo arrived in Sochi on Tuesday morning, Eastern time, from Brussels, where he held impromptu talks with European officials on Monday. Pompeo had been previously scheduled to spend Monday in Moscow to meet Americans based in Russia and to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. But a growing threat from Iran, the State Department said, spurred Pompeo to cancel the Moscow leg of his trip and fly to Brussels instead.
Pompeo is expected to join Lavrov for a joint news conference at the end of the day’s talks. He will meet with Putin at Bocharov Ruchey, the president’s summer residence where he often receives international guests — including President George W. Bush in 2008.
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