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🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova, October 7, 2021.
🔸#Lavrov
🔸#UNGA76
🔸#Afghanistan
🔸#RussiaNATO
🔸#Denmark
🔸#CrimeaIsRussia
🔸#ShanghaiCooperationOrganization
🔸#RussiaFrance
🔸#OPCW #Navalny
🔸#JCPOA
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🔸#Lavrov
🔸#UNGA76
🔸#Afghanistan
🔸#RussiaNATO
🔸#Denmark
🔸#CrimeaIsRussia
🔸#ShanghaiCooperationOrganization
🔸#RussiaFrance
🔸#OPCW #Navalny
🔸#JCPOA
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⚡️ Maria #Zakharova:
The #EuropeanUnion has not gone as far as barring the Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov from travelling as a diplomat; there can be exemptions from EU sanctions. This is what the head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell, said on Monday in response to a question from a journalist on whether the EU sanctions prevent the Russian Minister from travelling to Geneva.
❗️ But they did go too far. They are lying and scrambling to get away with it.
Russia prepared two routes which Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his delegation could take to attend meetings of the Conference on Disarmament and the UN Human Rights Council at the United Nations Office at Geneva.
👉 #Poland and #Estonia denied them passage, and the UN Secretariat knew this. Both countries cited EU sanctions.
Mr Borrell, what betrays the doublespeak in your position is that when Sergey Lavrov asked countries in their national capacity to express their positions on security matters, which are critical to us, you answered for all EU member states, although no one asked you or the EU as an organisation to do so. You even provided a lengthy explanation to demonstrate that the EU has a “collective position” based on the majority opinion.
But when the same countries denied the delegation passage for attending UN events in Geneva on the basis of the EU restrictions that you have announced, you said that it is their sovereign right 🤷♂️
Doublespeak from a doublespeaker.
The #EuropeanUnion has not gone as far as barring the Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov from travelling as a diplomat; there can be exemptions from EU sanctions. This is what the head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell, said on Monday in response to a question from a journalist on whether the EU sanctions prevent the Russian Minister from travelling to Geneva.
❗️ But they did go too far. They are lying and scrambling to get away with it.
Russia prepared two routes which Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his delegation could take to attend meetings of the Conference on Disarmament and the UN Human Rights Council at the United Nations Office at Geneva.
👉 #Poland and #Estonia denied them passage, and the UN Secretariat knew this. Both countries cited EU sanctions.
Mr Borrell, what betrays the doublespeak in your position is that when Sergey Lavrov asked countries in their national capacity to express their positions on security matters, which are critical to us, you answered for all EU member states, although no one asked you or the EU as an organisation to do so. You even provided a lengthy explanation to demonstrate that the EU has a “collective position” based on the majority opinion.
But when the same countries denied the delegation passage for attending UN events in Geneva on the basis of the EU restrictions that you have announced, you said that it is their sovereign right 🤷♂️
Doublespeak from a doublespeaker.
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