EMBASSY INFORMS
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Q.: How would you comment the situation with the alleged poisoning of MI6 agent Sergei Skripal in Salisbury?
A.: The situation regarding the hospitalisation of Sergey Skripal and another person on 4 March, as described by the British media, causes serious concern.
Given the continued media speculation on Russia's role in Eastern Ghouta, and in the light of Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson's statement of 5 March, accusing Russia of acting contary to UN Security Council resolution 2401, we believe it useful to briefly recapitulate the main facts pertaining to the situation in Eastern Ghouta.
Q: According to the Downing Street spokesperson, Prime Minister Theresa May and US President Donald Trump “agreed that the overwhelming responsibility for the heart-breaking human suffering lay with the Syrian regime and Russia”. How does it relate to the real situation on the ground and Russia’s efforts in bringing an end to suffering of the population in Eastern Ghouta?
A: There are at least three reasons why we cannot accept these allegations.
Firstly, the UN Security Council resolution 2401 aimed at alleviating suffering of the people in Eastern Ghouta calls upon all the countries with influence in Syria, including the United Kingdom and the United States, to pressure warring sides to end the fighting.
On 5 March Ambassador Dr. Alexander Yakovenko welcomed Ambassadors accredited to London, senior Foreign Office staff, MPs and Lords and representatives of think tanks at a briefing dedicated to the Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly delivered on 1 March.
On 3 March, Bulgaria’s national holiday Liberation Day, members of the Bulgarian community in London came to the Russian Embassy to express gratitude for the liberation of their country from the Ottoman yoke. .
On 28 February – 1 March 2018 the Agricultural Attaché of the Russian Embassy Vladimir Derbenskiy and the Russian company «Ailita», specializing in production of flower and vegetable seeds for amateurs market, visited world-known British seed companies «Mr. Fothergill’s» and «Thompson & Morgan» in the county of Suffolk.
On 27th February 2018, the Russian Consul General in Edinburgh Mr Andrey A.Pritsepov visited relatives of the WWII Veteran who took part in the Arctic Convoys, Mr Robert Stewart.
During a working trip to Perthshire on February 27 this year, Consul General of Russia in Edinburgh, Andrey A.Pritsepov visited one of the best known private schools in Scotland – Glenalmond college for children aged 12-18. It was launched in 1847 by Prime Minister of Great Britain William Gladstone.
On 28th of September during a working visit to Perthshire Consul General of Russia in Edinburgh Andrey A.Pritsepov held a working meeting with the Provost of Perth Dennis Melloy.
Consul General Andrey Pritsepov answers Edinburgh Evening News questions about situation in Eastern Ghouta (27 February 2018)
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