EMBASSY INFORMS
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Question: How would you comment on Theresa May thanking the UK Armed Forces for “protecting our waters and our skies from Russian intrusion” in her Christmas Message? Answer: We were utterly surprised by the Prime Minister’s rhetoric. An uninitiated reader may fall under the impression that Russia has made attempts to violate the UK air space or territorial waters. This has never happened.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the international news agency Rossiya Segodnya, December 24, 2018
Question: Today’s publication by the “Times” contains personal information of 8 employees of the Sputnik bureau in Edinburgh, as well as calls to seize their assets in UK as belonging to the“Kremlin propaganda machine” by Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP. How can you comment on that?
Answer: Despite being a member of an opposition party, Mr Cole-Hamilton seems to understand intimately the political strategy of the Conservative Government towards Russian media in the UK. Pressure from all sides, ranking from ungrounded accusations to visa and banking problems is the new reality. Few opportunities to hinder the work of our media in the UK have been missed, in defiance of the UK international obligations and the civilized rules of media freedom.
Question: How do you assess the UK Government position regarding the creation of so-called “national army” of Kosovo? Answer: The decision by Pristina to transform the Kosovo Security Force into full-fledged “armed forces” is a flagrant violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1244, which is the fundamental international legal act defining the modalities of the Kosovo settlement. Let me remind you that the resolution only allows the deployment of only international contingents in Kosovo.
Question: How would you comment on the United States’ new sanctions against a number of Russian nationals, including those allegedly involved in the Salisbury incident?
Answer: We have not been surprised by such a decision as the US government has been following the policy of unlawful sanctions against many nations, including Russia, for a long time. In the absence of any official information regarding the British investigation into the Salisbury incident, Washington continues to exploit the alleged poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal to press on with their sanctions campaign. This is not the first occasion when the United States makes decisions in the context of the Salisbury case regardless of whether any updates on the investigation have been made publicly available. The only logical explanation for this fact is that Washington may have played the leading part in orchestrating this entire provocation.
Question: How would you comment on the publication by “Bloomberg” claiming that Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson said the UK would adopt a strategy it had not used since the Cold War to combat the threat from Russia? Answer: In this particular case the media have referred to a statement that Mr Williamson did not actually make. However, this whole situation shows that a certain part of the British establishment is determined to treat Russia as its main adversary for the years to come.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Radio Komsomolskaya Pravda, Moscow, December 17, 2018
Question: BBC has admitted that its correspondent was specifically searching for facts of “Russian meddling” during the riots in Paris upon the instructions of her superiors. How could you comment on this? Answer: It is indeed noteworthy that instead of independent impartial journalism BBC employees are instructed to find at any cost “facts” in support of a certain interpretation of events. As the saying goes, if facts do not correspond to the editorial policy, too bad for them. Such behaviour by BBC, which is mainly financed by British taxpayers, ought to be assessed by the British public and the regulating authorities. It may also be of interest for OSCE.
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Turkey as guarantors of the Astana format held the trilateral meeting and consultations with the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Syria Mr. Staffan de Mistura in Geneva on 18 December 2018.
The Russian Federation supports the adoption of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.
This compromise document covers many dimensions of international migration, including humanitarian aspect, development issues, human rights and fight against crime.
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