Russia's Ryabkov Describes Talks With US Envoy Abrams On Venezuela As Difficult But Frank

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov described his talks on Venezuela with US Envoy Elliott Abrams on Tuesday as difficult but frank, giving Moscow a better understanding of US stance on the Venezuelan crisis

ROME (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 19th March, 2019) Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov described his talks on Venezuela with US Envoy Elliott Abrams on Tuesday as difficult but frank, giving Moscow a better understanding of US stance on the Venezuelan crisis.

The talks took place at the Westin Excelsior hotel in Rome earlier in the day.

"The conversation turned out to be quite difficult, but frank," Ryabkov said at a news conference after the talks.

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"Today's talks with Abrams and other representatives of the US administration, according to our assessment, were useful, despite the fact that we could not bring closer together our positions on the fundamental aspects of our approaches to this situation," Ryabkov said.

"But we have a better understanding now of the US approaches to what is happening, we felt the "nerve" of American policy in this area, and we will analyze the signals that we received from the American side," he stressed.