MOSCOW, November 14. /TASS/. The restoration of a full-fledged dialogue between the Russian and US military is impossible under the current Washington administration, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told reporters on Monday.

"I would like to ask the US defense ministry: what does cooperation mean for it? If this is restoring full-fledged contacts between the military suspended a rather long time ago and unilaterally by the Obama administration, then the issue apparently cannot be solved under the current administration," Ryabkov stressed. "It holds its ground stubbornly."

The diplomat said Pentagon's call on the U.S. president-elect not to cooperate with Russia on Syria is a proof of contradictions in Washington.

"This is an old position of Obama's administration, the position, containing contradictions," the diplomat said. "On one hand, they declare any cooperation with Russia is of no purpose, while on avoiding incidents in the air the cooperation does continue."

Moscow has no intention to persuade Pentagon to cooperate on Syria, he went on, Washington is no less interested in dialog.

"We are interested no more than the United States in this cooperation but as the outgoing US administration adheres to this line due to considerations that have no relation to practical work, we’ll proceed from this," Ryabkov said.

"Of course, in any case, we do not intend to persuade the Pentagon leadership to change something in this regard," the diplomat said.

A few days earlier, in an interview with CBS the U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said: "I’m not recommending to the president that we associate ourselves with or work with the Russians."

Russia ready to fix relations with US

Moscow is ready absolutely, without delays, to begin fixing the relations with the US, Ryabkov said.

High-level statements on the approach to development of relations with the future U.S. administration have been voiced already, he said.