Well, president trump on crimea is well known and he stands firmly by it. he continued to maintain that it was illegal to annex it. our viewpoint is different. we held the referendum in strict compliance with the u.n. charter and international legislation. and now to the compromising material. yeah, i did hear these rumors that we allegedly collected compromising material on mr. trump when he was visiting moscow. distinguished colleague, let me tell you this. when president trump is in moscow back then, i didn t even know that he was in moscow. i treat president trump with utmost respect, but back then, when he was a private individual, nobody informed me he was in moscow. let s take st. petersburg economic forum for instance,
Something to do with illegal actions on the territory of russia, and we have to request the presence of our law enforcement. for instance, we can bring up the mr. browder in this particular case. business associates of mr. browder have earned over $1.5 billion in russia. they never paid any taxes. neither in russia or the united states, and yet, the money escaped the country. they were transferred to the united states. they sent 400 million as a contribution to the campaign of hillary clinton. well, that s their personal case. it might have been legal. the contribution it, but the way the money was earned was illegal. so we have a solid reason to believe that some intelligence officers, accompanied and guided these transactions. so we have an interest of
Once again, president trump mentioned the issue of the so-called interference of russia when the american elections, and i had to reiterate things i said several times including during our personal contacts that the russian state has never interfered and is not going to interfere into internal american affairs including election process. any specific material, if such things arise, we are ready to analyze together. for instance, we can analyze them through the joint working group on cyber security, the establishment of which we discussed during our previous contacts. and clearly it s past time we restore our cooperation in the cultural area in the humanitarian area. as far as i think you know that recently we hosted the american
The resolution 338. we re glad of the korean peninsula issue starting to resolve. to a great extent it was possible thanks to the personal engagement of president trump who opted for dialogue instead of confrontation. we also mentioned our concern about the withdrawal of the united states from the gcpoa. well, the u.s. our u.s. counterparts are aware of our posture. thanks to the iranian nuclear deal, iran became the most controlled country in the world. it effectively ensures the peaceful nature of the iranian nuclear program, and strengthened the nonproliferation regime. while we discuss the internal ukrainian crisis, we paid special attention to the implementation of agreements.
Represent the russian state. and i brought several examples before. well, you have a lot of individuals in the united states, take george soros, for instance, with multibillion capitals, but it doesn t make him his posture the posture of the united states. no, it does not. it s the same case. there is the issue of trying a case in the court and the final the final say is for the court to deliver. we are now talking about the private the individuals and not about particular states. and as far as the most recent allegation is concerned, about the russian intelligence officers, we do have an intergovernmental treaty. please do send us the request. we will analyze it properly and send a formal response. as i said, we can extend this