Sanctions not discussed at Alaska summit - Lavrov

MOSCOW. Aug 19 (Interfax) - Sanctions were not discussed at the Russian-U.S. summit in Alaska, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

"We did not discuss sanctions," Lavrov said in an interview with Nailya Asker-zade on the Rossiya-24 television channel (VGTRK).

"Many of our experts, as well as politicians and officials have repeatedly said that lifting the sanctions might play a negative role, as this could again instill an illusion in some sectors of our economy that we can overcome all problems by returning to the schemes developed and implemented in the 1990s and early 2000s," he said.

"Many think that will nullify our achievements in strengthening our technological sovereignty and necessitating the reliance on our technologies in key issues on which military, economic and food security depends," Lavrov said. "The process is much more reliable, much more promising today than it was six months ago, at the end of the Biden administration's term," he said.