The United States is not currently ready to advance dialogue with Russia, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
"Unfortunately, now we see that they are not ready to advance at all. But President Putin is quite an experienced and quite a patient president of quite a patient country," the spokesman said in an interview with RT's SophieCo programme.
Peskov explained that Russia and the U.S. have many strategic matters on the agenda that can only be solved at the highest level and the absence of meetings between the two countries' presidents contradict both Russian and the U.S. national interests.
"We see lots of strategic questions on the agenda that should be tackled on the level of two presidents. There is no way for these problems to be solved on a lower level," he said.
Many of the questions that should be discussed at the presidential level were coming from Washington, according to the spokesman. Peskov noted that those problems were "idling in absence of the dialogue on the highest level."
Therefore, he noted that "not meeting each other is illogical. And it contradicts the national interests of our two countries. But we cannot be… more holy than the Pope," Peskov said.