MOSCOW, August 20. /TASS/. Competent Russian ministries oppose the denunciation of agreements and treaties with NATO, the European Union, the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), instruments that can still be used for dialogue, Garry Minkh, the plenipotentiary representative of the Russian president in the State Duma, told TASS in an interview.
"Specialized ministries are against the denunciation of our partnership [agreements] with NATO, or global financial organizations, including the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank," the politician said.
Minkh explained Russian ministries’ position, saying that the aforementioned documents, including the Russia-EU agreement, "have not exhausted their potential" in the context of conducting dialogue with the West. He described them as "an instrument of communication with other nations." Also, he echoed the position repeatedly voiced by the Russian president and the country’s top diplomat that "we are ready for communication, and we have not rejected that."
Unlike Western countries, Minkh continued, Russia has always taken responsibility for honoring its obligations under international agreements as he referred to the situation around the Minsk accords.
