“We took into account the upcoming session in Moscow, but we cannot yet confirm any meetings or participation on our part,” RIA Novosti quotes Price as saying at the briefing.

According to him, the United States has a coincidence of interests with countries like Russia on the issue of Afghanistan.

He added that the American side had previously found the expanded three format useful.

Earlier, the director of the second department of Asia of the Russian Foreign Ministry Zamir Kabulov said that Russia expects from the United States confirmation of the participation of the special envoy of the American President Zalmai Khalilzad in the meetings on Afghanistan in Moscow.