“Quiet diplomacy” continues, it should bear fruit, if, of course, Washington strictly follows it, without sliding into propaganda, ”TASS quoted him as saying.
Darchiev added that in the situation with the removal by Washington of the topic of a possible exchange of prisoners in the public field, the Russian side can "only shrug."
“I would not like to think that this was done out of banal thoughtlessness.
Rather, there was an attempt to put pressure on us through the hype in the media,” the diplomat said.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced his readiness to discuss the exchange of prisoners with the United States, but only through a special channel approved by the presidents of states.