UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia’s U.N. ambassador said that tensions with the United States are probably the worst since the 1973 Mideast war.
But Vitaly Churkin said Friday that Cold War relations between the Soviet Union and Russia more than 40 years ago were different than U.S.-Russia relations today.
“The general situation I think is pretty bad at this point, probably the worst … since 1973,” he said.
Churkin said that “even though we have serious frictions, differences like Syria, we continue to work on other issues … and sometimes quite well.”
That wasn’t the case generally during the Cold War.
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Source: KXAN
