BUENOS AIRES, December 27. /TASS/. Argentina and Russia maintain interaction at an operational level, but relations have been affected by the political situation, Russian Ambassador to Buenos Aires Dmitry Feoktistov told TASS.

“As for relations with the Argentine Republic, we certainly cannot be fully satisfied with them and we hope that they will be less dependent on the political situation and the geopolitical context. Working communications continue at all levels between the embassy and the administration but the political dialogue at the top and high level is actually frozen until now,” the ambassador said.

Trade turnover between the two countries is constantly declining and this year’s figures are two times lower than a few years ago, Feoktistov said. “Despite the verbal desire to promote trade and economic relations, we have not seen so far the reaction of the administration to give impetus to such interaction, including organizing the next meeting of the bilateral cooperation commission commercial, economic and scientific and technical “, which has not met as long as since 2019. And this, given that Argentina still has a positive balance in commercial turnover with Russia”, he said. he added.