Russia and the United States will put in place bilateral instruments to address critical problems that have led to the instability in the two nations’ relationship, according to a press conference statement of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on April 13, 2017 after a meeting with the U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

“The agreement to the same effect has already been reached. Now we will probably start to form the dialogue mechanisms in practice, something that is important in its own right,” he said.

“It is always better to speak to each other directly than to make remarks through the microphone and tell each other what we think without looking each other in the eye,” the Russian diplomat said.

“The process [of normalizing relations] is not a rapid one, but if what we have agreed upon from a methodological standpoint starts to be put into practice, it will be useful,” Foreign Minister Lavrov stated.