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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the United States and Russia should cooperate where their national interests align and avoid turning disagreements into confrontation. Speaking to a CNN journalist during his press conference, Lavrov said he agrees with US Senator Marco Rubio that mutually beneficial projects should be pursued when interests coincide.

Lavrov said it would be a mistake not to cooperate in areas of common interest, but warned that when positions differ, those disagreements should not escalate into direct confrontation. He stressed the importance of pragmatism and dialogue in managing relations between the two countries.

The remarks come amid ongoing tensions between Moscow and Washington over Ukraine, sanctions, NATO expansion, and broader geopolitical disputes, as both sides seek to prevent further escalation between the world’s two largest nuclear powers.

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00:00Thank you very much, Matthew Chance from CNN.
00:04You've, Mr. Lavrov, repeatedly praised President Trump
00:08for understanding Russia's interests on the issue of Ukraine, for instance,
00:13but you've also criticised recent U.S. moves against Russian allies
00:18in Venezuela, in Iran, threats against Cuba, things like that.
00:24My question is, to what extent do you think that inconsistency
00:29that unpredictability, that willingness to use unconstrained power
00:35by President Trump, actually in itself represents a threat to Russia?
00:43Well, from the outset, I spoke about Cuba and Venezuela
00:47in my opening remarks, as well as about Iran,
00:49and we see the inconsistency in actions by the administration of Donald Trump
00:56in terms of ensuring international security
00:59and their attitude towards international law.
01:02When asked this question several days ago,
01:05Donald Trump said he was not interested in international law.
01:09All the norms in the international arena were set by his own morality,
01:14as he said.
01:15This is a very interesting statement.
01:19We have never counted or expected that with any country
01:24or our neighbours we would have absolutely coinciding position.
01:29These positions cannot coincide absolutely,
01:33nor can it be the case between the two biggest nuclear powers,
01:38the U.S. and Russia.
01:39I think it's a very good chance right now to remember
01:45what New York Times has recently reported on.
01:51This newspaper prepared an article.
01:55It's called Godfather in Riyadh.
01:58It says that Marco Rubio,
02:02doing his talks with myself
02:04and with my delegation in Riyadh in February 2025,
02:13as New York Times has said,
02:15has basically switched on the film lover mode,
02:23citing Godfather.
02:24He allegedly cited Corleone,
02:27saying that I've always tried to be,
02:29not to be careless,
02:33women and children can be careless,
02:37but men cannot be,
02:39and nuclear powers cannot be careless.
02:41This conversation did happen,
02:43and if Marco Rubio thought it possible
02:46to share that with the press,
02:47I think I can do the same,
02:51and I can share some more details.
02:52At the very beginning of our meeting,
02:55Riyadh, Marco said,
02:57I'm not going to quote directly,
02:59I do not remember,
03:00but the essence is there,
03:01the gist is there.
03:02I remember that very well.
03:03He said,
03:03foreign policy of the US
03:06anti-President Trump
03:08is set by national interests
03:12as well as common sense.
03:13This means that the US recognizes
03:21that its leading partners
03:25also have their own national interests.
03:28Well, he didn't say all countries of the world,
03:31but he said leading partners,
03:34the other great powers
03:36all have their own national interests.
03:38and then he continued,
03:40the national interests of such countries
03:41as the US and Russia
03:43will not always coincide.
03:46In most cases,
03:48they won't coincide at all.
03:50But should they coincide whenever that happens,
03:56it would be a gross mistake
04:00not to take advantage
04:02of those coinciding positions
04:05to come to an agreement
04:09and implement mutually beneficial projects
04:12in economy and investment
04:14and finance and so on and so forth.
04:15And then he added,
04:17when the national interests
04:20of such countries as Russia
04:23and the US do not coincide,
04:25it would be a crime
04:26to let that lack
04:29of coinciding positions
04:31to degenerate into a confrontation,
04:35especially a hot confrontation.
04:39And in my response to him,
04:41I said that I fully share
04:42that philosophy,
04:43that logic,
04:45and I said that I do hope
04:47that I'm happy
04:48that the US understands
04:50that such a position
04:52articulated by Marco Rubio
04:54is well-founded.
04:55to be a good one.
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