The diplomat says US statements about lifting sanctions on Russia should not be taken seriously.

It is clear that the US, with its bipartisan anti-Russian consensus, will not lift the sanctions regardless of future developments,” Sergei Ryabkov said. 

If a solution is found regarding Ukraine, we have heard some elliptical public statements from US government officials  in the Ukrainian context," he said during a panel  entitled "Russia-US: Where Are the Limits of Confrontation?

which took place at the Valdai Discussion Club. “These statements cannot be taken seriously. The diplomat said that Russia has long been under sanctions, effectively since 1949 when the Western bloc set up the Coordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls, better known as COCOM, to restrict exports of strategic goods and technology to the USSR and other countries. socialist countries, which was only dissolved in 1994. It wasn't canceled until 2012, but immediately after the US passed the so-called Magnitsky Act."

"It is clear that the US, with its anti-Russian bipartisan  consensus, will not lift sanctions regardless of future developments," Ryabkov said. “Fundamentally, sanctions, along with control of the global  media,  remain one of the few  levers of pressure on the outside world that still work and are capable of causing us certain inconveniences  but cannot affect our policies, including the progress of the special military operation.