At present, Russia is not ready to discuss making any changes to its list of unfriendly states, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said.
"We do not consider the list approved by a corresponding government act as a conjunctural thing or a means of aggravating tensions. This is a legal act. This is a platform for implementing certain decisions that we took earlier, which wasn’t here before. So it is not worth discussing whether we need to add or exclude someone from this list only due to political signals that we hear - these signals are changing, they are coming in," he said.
"There is no reason to think that there are some additional decisions in the works regarding this list. This issue is too serious. And the situation in our relations with the U.S. and the Czech Republic is very difficult, which is what triggered the creation of this instrument. But we are not ready to deliberate over when any changes are possible, and whether they are possible at all, not even very tentatively," TASS cited Ryabkov as saying.
