WASHINGTON, February 10 - RAPSI. U.S. and Russian postal services will soon agree on postage payment for mailing case documents, Justice Minister Alexander Konovalov told journalists in Washington on Thursday.

The United States requires from Russia to pay in full the cost of sending court decisions, which is unacceptable from Russia's point of view.

"The United States wishes to charge for case documents execution in defiance of the procedure stipulated by the relevant Hague Convention. Russia considered it unacceptable for a very long time, now we are close to a compromise, pursuant to which we will apply the mirror practice and charge for fulfilling the requests from U.S. courts. We hope to reach a way out and expect the post agencies of our countries to hold talks and reach a mutually acceptable solution to the problem," Konovalov said.
According to him, the parties have reached agreement on many aspects in the issue.

On a visit in Washington the justice minister took part in the first meeting of the working group on the rule of law as part of the Russian-U.S. Presidential Commission. On Thursday Konovalov met with the Department of Justice leaders and Attorney General Eric Holder.

"These days we held the first meeting of out working group. The experts meeting to discuss the agenda, took place on February 8, and today we conducted the meeting of group's co-chairpersons. U.S. Justice Minister and Attorney General Eric Holder is representing the United States. The agenda included practical issues such as the execution of court requests. This issue, unfortunately, was practically paralyzed in the last years," Konovalov said.