Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday he is trying to “begin to have positive conversations” with Russian officials.

“We have interests that are definitely different, and there will be places where we run into hard stops pretty quickly, but there is no doubt there was a desire to begin to try and find paths where we can make real progress on places where we have overlapping interests, as narrow as they may be,” Pompeo told reporters in Finland.

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