WASHINGTON, November 16. /TASS/. The embassy of Russia in Washington said a "window of opportunity" for normalization of Russian-US ties has opened.
"In today's multipolar world, where claims for sole leadership have no place, especially against the backdrop of the Trump administration’s rejection of the liberal globalist model of a "rules-based world order", a window of opportunity has opened for Russia and the United States as great powers to normalize relations based on principles of equality, respect for national interests, and non-confrontational coexistence. It was precisely this approach that enabled the breakthrough back in 1933," the embassy said in a statement on the 92nd anniversary of establishing the diplomatic relations between Russia and the United States.
According to the embassy, before the diplomatic ties were established on November 16, 1933, the two states were in "an extended period without official ties, when American ruling elites for 16 years refused to deal with the young Soviet state, which they declared a threat to the ‘civilized world’."
"It took the political wisdom of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and other clear-headed US politicians, who recognized the new geopolitical realities, as well as the interest of business - during the Great Depression of the 1930s - in large-scale projects in the context of accelerated industrialization in the USSR, to make the decision to recognize the Soviet Union," Russian diplomats said.
