Russian warns US of ‘potential crisis’

US-Russian relations are heading for a potential crisis unless Washington drops its unilateral approach to foreign policy, a senior Russian lawmaker has warned.

Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the international affairs committee of the Russian Duma, says that President Vladimir Putin’s strongly-worded speech in Munich last month criticising US unilateralism was not a declaration of a new cold war. Instead, it was a call for the White House to return to a multilateral framework for resolving issues such as the nuclear programmes of Iran and North Korea, or the future of the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo.

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