David Cameron would have been a "good KGB agent", Russian President Dmitry Medvedev today in a lighter vein after his tough parleys with the visiting British prime minister.
"David would have been a good KGB agent, but then he would not have become prime minister," Medvedev said responding to a question asked by a foreign correspondent about reports of KGB's attempt to enroll David Cameron in 1985 during his visit to the Soviet Union.
Cameron is the first British leader to visit Russia in almost last six years since the Alexander Litvinenko poisoning in 2006, after which 10 Downing Street froze all its diplomatic and political contacts with Vladimir Putin, who had refused to extradite alleged killer, a former KGB officer Andrei Lugovoi.
In 2007, the then President Vladimir Putin cited the constitutional constraint, which does not allow the extradition of a Russian citizen to a foreign power.
Speaking at a joint press conference in the Kremlin with Medvedev, Cameron dismissed suggestions that the UK had "parked" the issue of the death of Litvinenko for trade relations.
"It remains an issue between Britain and Russia. We haven't changed our position about that, and the Russians haven't changed their position," Cameron said indicating that Moscow and London have agreed to disagree on the issue, which remained "important" for his country.
