WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The general made the statement upon concluding a visit to Washington, DC by the Russian side’s, which took place for the first time in more than a decade.
"We have offered to hold the next meeting of the Commission in Russia in the early fall of 2017," Vostrotin stated on Wednesday.
Vostronin noted that one of the Russian cities, including Moscow, Saint Petersburg or Sochi, could host the event.
Vostronin pointed out the Russian side of the Commission has opened an office in the United States that should facilitate its work.
"We are planning to work with German documents from US archives," he said. "We need to hire staff that can speak English and are fluent in the German language."
The Commission could potentially find information on thousands of people missing in action, Vostronin observed.
"If we allow this [politics to interfere], it will slow down our activities, which have been going well."
The two sides have already exchanged data on several occasions, including sharing information on a presumably US submarine that sank near the Russian Kuril islands during World War II and four Russian pilots who were killed during the same historical period and buried at a US military cemetery in Belgium.
The presidents of the United States and Russia, George H.W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin, established the USRJC in 1992.
The Commission comprises of several working groups, which focus on collecting and analyzing documents which date back to World War II, the Korean War of 1950-1953, the Vietnam War and the Cold War and operations in Afghanistan.
