Elon Musk called for greater dialogue between Washington and Moscow, while ties between the couple are currently waning below the lows after the Cold War.
“There is a lot of talent and energy in Russia and I think there should be more dialogue and communication between Russia and the United States,” the Tesla CEO said Friday via a video link on a Russian education forum in Moscow.
He also said that his company for electric vehicles is close to the establishment of Russia and that he or he can open factories there.
The 49-year-old’s comments come after the United States and Russia’s leading diplomats held their first personal meeting on Wednesday, indicating a possible thaw in relations.
The talks between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken took place along the sidelines of an Arctic Council meeting in the Icelandic capital, Reykjavik.
The pair acknowledged that there were significant differences between the two governments, but agreed that they could work together on certain issues, and both sides hailed the meeting as ‘constructive’.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the meeting would help Russian President Vladimir Putin decide whether to attend a proposed summit with his American counterpart Joe Biden next month.
“This is undoubtedly a positive signal,” he told reporters.
Ties between Moscow and Washington have fallen to their lowest point in decades in recent months, after Biden said in March that he thought Putin was a “killer”.
The remark relates to accusations that the Russian president has ordered to poison the now imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny, an allegation that the Kremlin strongly denies.
Biden’s comments forced Moscow to recall its ambassador to Washington.