Pompeo warns Russia against interfering in the 2020 U.S. presidential election
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he has warned the Russian foreign minister against interference in the next American presidential election. Pompeo said Tuesday at a news conference after three hours of talks with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that "interference in American elections is unacceptable and if the Russians were engaged in that in 2020 it would put our relationship in an even worse place than it has been."
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- Published Date: 07:49 | 14 May 2019
- Modified Date: 07:49 | 14 May 2019
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday that Washington would not tolerate any Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election in 2020.
Speaking at a news conference after holding talks with Lavrov in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, Pompeo said he had made it clear to Russia that there could be no repeat of election interference of the kind Washington accuses Moscow of undertaking in the 2016 presidential election.
Russia denies the allegation it meddled in that election.
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He said that "we fundamentally don't seek a war with Iran."
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