Our relations there youre probably seeing more and more sanctions i heard that. Mr menendez. Used to songs as opposed to a you know advocating for sanctions saying that the russian people are suffering from the all the garlic so thats something altogether new for us but we have 0 doubt that dollar drum is insincere. That he understands that the u. S. Will only benefit from good relations with russia as for ukraine i didnt really get your question could you please repeat. The strain and that the impeachment process has points on the ukrainian us relationship what sort of lab ridge do you think that gives russia in your discussions with ukraine about ending a conflict without. You and you would work with machines and we dont really understand. What do we have to do with your korean relations and what kind of leverage can we apply to the situation thats something for the 2 sovereign states to deal with that certain. Do you leave him more hopeful or less hopeful but new stock can be extended when you came and the 3rd drop dead date after which it will be too late to extend the treaty. Nor through that the you really well the date is february the 5th 2021. Until then. Its in our hands in his hands solution do something our proposal is on the table theyve heard us say its up for washington to decide now. Mr locke of the new york times. Has just put out a statement about your meeting with President Trump saying that the president did warn about warn you not to interfere in u. S. Elections and also urged you to try and settle your car clicked or the situation if you create was just going to get discussed these 2 items in are so can you tell us about the discussion. Its nice to rebut what you know absolutely no we did not discuss the election thats for ukraine. To stay secretary and president about the. Meeting i have about the outcome so that normandy for a meeting in paris in my opinion is based on the final communique circulated to the media as well as far as i know. Thank you john hutton of the Washington Post mr ladbrokes what is your sense from the United States based on your discussions in syria do you think the trumpet ministration is coming along or maybe accepting the assad regimes rule in syria were were they more critical of the russian position critical of russian bombing in it live. Or perhaps maybe open to opening an embassy in damascus whats your sense of how the United States views the assad regime. Was nice to move more americans could you probably are going you should ask that question when talking to the your ass administration because thats their attitude towards the governments of the Syrian Arab Republic and you suppose it wasnt. With that 1st because. The u. S. Did not support the process but later on the joy in your book. You cook with the process of helping to establish the Constitutional Committee that committee consists of 3 sides the opposition the government and the Civil Society representatives. With. That show you see that america understands and accepts the reality in syria these are the realities of today and these are realities that they got sick usually coming to ease upon and today i saw my from. Certain interested in seeing the constitutional reforms to happen as the war in the Security Council resolution stipulates for more. On the situations that. Has become a hard battle. Of terrorism and our turkish colleagues. So we would be failing to deliver on their obligations to separate. The armed opposition you. Know but there. Hasnt been involved in any terrorist acts and. We changed the name to. Turkey promised. Do that in september last year its a tall order to stand that and the about modernization at the time also assured us that they would separate. The militants who were ready to have political dialogue from the ship how to lose their fighters knew that promise. Never came true when they bomb a new straits had failed to deliver. You know already back then we put them had of 1st suspicion about the way the treated. We had the suspicion that the us was sparing about the looser to use it against the legitimate government of bashar assad. Unlike isis which has been. Largely defeated and has existed only in the form of separate groups rather looser or. Has taking over the deescalation zone of aid lip its use it as a. Platform for carrying strikes against the mean civil infrastructure and rushes which may mean basically respond to these. Attacks and its impossible to have the situation linger for ever. Because of the good war missile because we need to fully liberate this zone from terrorists we need to make sure that the Digital Government has full control of the territory there is one element factor. And the charities who are there in the zone theyre sprawling. Theyre penetrating other regions a lot of them are now in libya in libya theyre adding oil to the fire of the collages and the fighting which. As an obstacle on the way of the political process or discuss syria in great detail we discussed the. Situation to the east of where you are freight is where the u. S. Was its coalition which hasnt been invited to syria tolls in the most abstruse continues organizing the lives of the sort of people basing their Decision Making on the help given by the kurdish. Populations sometimes that causes confrontation between the kurds and the arabs stripes. Because the territory is a native land for the arab population and the kurds are coming there wanting to take these lands we call upon the United States to solve their problems through these the repaid is based on the principles of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of syria and that is what there is aleutian says washingtons voted for that reason lucian you could stand up for us to be goes down of our t. Has been 2 or 3 hours since you have. Been really a lot of critics of criticism coming from the us media they said that meeting was behind closed doors and add im sure you had of the. House of representatives for intelligence said that this was a success for russian propaganda so we hear things thats russian propaganda success what about you do you think its really is the case and your political good what i think is that there was no press at all no u. S. No Russian Press was present or what has mr sharon believes that. Just to boost the only come talk to a regular and normal contact for most of them would do all you can. Be labeled as that and he things. That will be a meeting between the foreign minister and the president of the recipient country that we can have that meeting with the most well i dont know what to say thats a triumph for the good diplomacy maybe they are going to accuse that we just like the athletes allegedly. Banned substances thats just absurd much. But what was his statement is absolutely absurd and i think ne sober minded person would see the absurdity of his words. Can i ask. Whether or not as you know the president last time you were here disclose some highly classified information during your meeting and i wanted to know if anything to your knowledge was discussed today that would be considered highly classified. Thank you not your. Best for your 2nd course the last when the i can only know that from what youre going to write about this. Before our 1st meeting. There was no classified information and you know confidential information disclosed by anyone. We said it many times should anyone of you things that it was different thats just tell us what you know tell us what exactly information was exchanged but if there was to watch that story is about because its its just surreal as for today i dont know what information you can consider to be classified. As given to you frank almost a word for word the description of everything that we discussed if you find you secret well its your sensation to write about myself. I have 2 questions. The 1st one has to do with the scandal or prohibition of cooking in. The u. K. Its about a dossier. On the talks around the an h. K. Greenman between the u. K. And the usa and some others are now saying that the publication of the dossier is russias interference in the elections in the u. K. So could you comment on that please my 2nd question has to do with the recent visit of your states coincides in time with several. Discussions on the sanctions project the senate tomorrow another package of sciences will be discussed so you do take into account the risk of sanctions when making certain Foreign Policy decisions and do you warn the russian government to reduce the risk one pulls they are about to make some decisions you go. On the talks between the u. K. And the u. S. On Health Care Issues did i get that right yes thats right documents were published which have to do with the negotiations between the u. K. And the usa on selling some of the an h k 2. And they share stew. And it was already. Declared that it was part of the russian efforts to interfere in the domestic process and you do believe well im not surprised to hear that little when its a little nashua shuttles through. Your code blue or so they say that we allegedly interfered in the Health Care System and the arrangements read between the u. K. And the us i never heard about that. Good i heard that my former colleague and now Prime Minister. Openly said that there was no russian interference there werent you in the u. K. Your affairs not now nor the time of the brags that decision and i at this point i can say that i believe Boris Johnson on that. Thank you nic with Bloomberg News i just wanted to clarify your answer to a previous question the white house issued a readout that explicitly said President Trump warned you against any russian interference in u. S. Elections are you saying that that warning was not delivered thank you janish the World Community i did believe to read and widen this houses your comments about our which at that meeting it will. You can we did say secretary powell it was departments who put in the mansions that is d. S. Warned against interfere in the election process i responded to that night told it to the state secretary mentioned publicly not responded publicly again that we proposed it to the new straight to publish the transcript of. Communication we have the channel for curbing Cyber Security risks we have to actually. Use statements. And way i have these channels and if we publish this information will be clear that we were ready to cooperate on it which had to do with these allegations that russia interfere and they have. Refused point blank to have that cooperation. Hes listed you go to mr ops was that because the bush so we were ready to discuss any concerns so that part of the us and our requests our openness was not responded to positively and now we have this administration refuses to publish the solution communications well what else can we say that was publicly discussed at the state Department PressConference Im sorry i forgot to answer your 2nd question but the 2nd question had to do. To go to sleep with the looks of a look at your work. Coming here right when movies songs new sanctions are being discussed. Well i had similar questions some of you sad that we are here just one of the impeachment process is at its highs but you know whenever you come to washington you call inside into something impeachment sanctions what not. And this is going to be the last question 1st to row please. Mr lavrov. Some serious 2nd question do you have some special relationship some racial relationship where the music or rather he said that you were pleased to see here well we worked in moscow be careful be careful you can reveal something about yourself with because of my question i said it was ukraine you said that you came to washington right after the talks in paris but my question is as follows. What are your impressions about the one on one meeting between president putin and president selenski of ukraine. Is it possible that the. Key to the crisis. Is not only in the hands of moscow and key but also washington maybe washington should join the normandy force you have what do you think the moment the atmosphere of the meeting of the normal before and the atmosphere of the meeting between putting as there was constructive and i would say so you move assurance of there was a lot of respect towards each other and your battery was very pragmatic there was no one to put any ideology forward to do with and obscure the problems in the ukraine there was some ideological biases i sample that you should that ukraine do deal with that it was a very pragmatic discussion there were no loud statements made for the sake of making statements when everyone was ready to see what she Practical Solutions that it was clear that both the russian president ukrainian president s were ready to Seek Solutions to their problems as for the capitalists who helped to move forward on their way of solving the. Im certain implemented the misc agreements i think its all of the new moscow. Washington don is going to lugansk this is your version these are the centerpiece of the whole process the centerpiece is to have direct talks between donors clue grants can keep your mouth system. Not see nationalists in the ukraine are putting up is that what they show asking you to the polls good grosses me on the. Treason not to your books. That undermine ukraines National Interests not to start a direct dialogue and there is. Leading that process by the way they do in that cirrhosis after peter in their hold talks and he signed the agreement so you signed the misca course by the way that its only possible to come where you will come with or so some of them want war and some of them want peace. Would you add here to his election promises he would see the committee and then to that award he would you see to do his best to. Achieve peace and that can be done by implementing the courts thats what the meeting in paris was a buyout there is no alternative to the means coke or its your view that was confirmed at the very in the very 1st you know you before you consider the clause of the document adopted by the 4 leaders yesterday which any country including the United States the use of you or any other western or more nonwestern countries can help if they could school school. Which is the model of the situation in the following way this varies a Certain Group in used to your career. Theyre not willing to implement the music records and these countries they can propose to rate them to implement them or you could work a former representative for ukraine if you ask for those hes a device nothings going to happen good have happened then he said that occupational forces should be sent to the dawn by us and all the existing bodies there to ensure a normal life in the because locals can do republics model should be dismantled he suggested that police should be sent there and only after that elections can take place when you have a Patient Administration occupational forces there lections would not be genuine thats clear as day so we do hope that our work supports the local community but we do to clarify the situation with the chords. Will be indeed will clear for everyone and we hope that our west in our 4 year colleges will help us. To implement the un Security Council resolution on the matter. Thank you very much and see you again. And weve been listening to russias foreign minister Sergei Lavrov for just outlining his meeting with the u. S. President donald trump among the issues discussed a possible extension of a new start treaty or they agree to take steps to deescalate tensions in the persian gulf discussed sandwiching denuclearization of the korean peninsula. In other news crowds have rallied in paris against president plans to overhaul the Pension System more than a dozen arrests were made recent days the country see violent protests in several cities reporting from the french capital his. Well as you can see we are in the thick of it the country is trying to deliver their message to the government just one day before it now says their final plans for the pension reform in france although we did hear from the countrys Prime Minister that for them for now there is no intention to change their plans if we dont make serious profound and progressive reforms date someone else will make much more brutal reform tomorrow i hope that we can convince a majority of french people that our reform is fair it is universal it makes the special Pension Plans gradually disappear and is financially balanced not just for a moment let me give you a clearer picture of who these people are for instance weve already been used to the yellow vests but as you can see these are orange and what it says on them is s. N. C. F. This is the French Railway company which is by the way one of the main driving forces of the protests you can imagine what happens if the entire system. Railroad workers what if they go on strike son like that has already been facing that at one point almost 85 percent of the Railway Staff members white rice and this really cause chaos in the countrys transport system that its not only about iran and world war i can tell you that the professions range from air Traffic Controllers to actually Police Officers and warriors so this is just how vast it is. Like i said before even police Union Support the strike and actually in fact different opinion polls say that from 50 to 70. Side of the french population are supporting whats going on in the street in the streets of france right now but i do have to mention though that last week protests in various cities of these country did turn ugly an