Speaking to the Financial Times from Brussels, Vladimir Chizhov said Russia was "prepared to deal with the EU as it is", noting that regardless of the future of the Lisbon Treaty, "the EU is still there."
"With the Lisbon Treaty in force and a clearer picture of how the EU is organised it would have been easier to negotiate the pact," he told the business daily.
"I hope it won't delay the negotiating process."
Earlier this month, Irish voters rejected the treaty, which was designed to streamline the bloc's operations as it expands and absorbs new members, throwing the EU into renewed crisis.
Chizhov told the FT, "I sincerely wish our EU partners find a way out of yet another impasse."
"Above all, we're not gloating. It's not entirely a sign of the EU's strength, of course, but we'll be closely following developments."
He was speaking ahead of an EU-Russia summit in the Siberian city of Khanty-Mansiysk on Thursday and Friday, with talks on the long-delayed EU-Russia framework set to begin July 4.
European foreign ministers in May finally gave the go-ahead for EU talks on an EU-Russia Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, ending an almost two-year impasse caused by Lithuanian and Polish objections.
The European Union has been trying to update the existing accord -- a framework for Brussels-Moscow relations which is more than a decade old -- to take into account modern geopolitical and economic realities in the post-Soviet world.
Fresh EU-Russia negotiations are also deemed key to improving ties which soured under former president Vladimir Putin, who is now prime minister, as well as ensuring a reliable energy supply from Russia and reviewing human rights.
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