Naryshkin about meeting with head of CIA

The head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence (SVR) of Russia Sergey Naryshkin admitted the possibility of another meeting with the Director of the Central Intelligence Directorate (CIA) of the United States William Burns, Russian media reports.

He specified that the terms of a possible meeting can be determined by the Russian and American parties “by agreement”.

The press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov called the dialogue between Naryshkin and Burns useful, but the dates of a possible meeting are also unknown to him.

“It is really impossible to exclude the meeting and, of course, there is a benefit in such a dialogue. But I don’t know about the exact dates,” said Peskov.

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The last time the heads of the SVR and the CIA met on November 14 in Ankara at the headquarters of the National Intelligence Organization of Turkey, where they discussed nuclear security issues.

As the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan specified, as a result of negotiations, the parties agreed not to use nuclear weapons.