“I don’t think there will be any concrete results this week.

Our main goal is, in principle, to establish a dialogue, ”said Sullivan.

He noted that the United States sees concrete proposals with which Moscow comes to negotiations.

“We cannot now answer them in any way and divide the spheres of influence with Russia,” he said.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Russia expects from the United States authorities a quick response on previously proposed security guarantees.

Earlier, the press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, said that there were no clear deadlines for consultations with the United States on security guarantees, but Russia would not be satisfied with the endless delay of this process.

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