“We remain open to a dialogue if they show readiness to really take into account our interests, not in words, and to interact on the basis of mutual benefit and respect,” the Russian Foreign Minister said, TASS news agency noted Monday.

Perhaps sooner or later they will realize the futility of the current anti-Russian course, Lavrov added.

The question is not for us, but for the current generation of leaders, first of all, of European countries, who have clearly lost their strategic vision and blindly follow the harmful American line,” he added.

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