Today another briefing of the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova took place....
Traditionally, Maria Vladimirovna raised the most important questions of the international agenda. The correspondent managed to ask the questions also to The Moscow Post.
The first question concerned a situation with non-admission of the Russian athletes on the Olympic Games in Paris which will take place next summer. Recently the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo said that in the city will not be glad to the Russian athletes, and the head of the IOC Thomas Bach admitted that he acted for the benefits of politicians, dissuading the countries from participation in the Russian Games of Friendship. In this regard, what prospects of the Olympic Movement and what place of Russia in it?
Answering this question, the diplomat noted that Anne Hidalgo's statements are unfounded, nobody asked Parisians - whether they will be glad to see Russian and Belarusian the athlete at the forthcoming Olympic Games. Besides, in the Russian Foreign Ministry understand how public opinion of France is strongly processed by the mainstream media extending the western narratives.
In this regard Zakharova reminded how a few days ago the MFA published extensive material about two-year anniversary of provocation in the Ukrainian Turmoil. Lists of the dead are not submitted to still world community, nobody knows who those people whom the Kiev mode those announced allegedly because of actions of the Russian side. There is also no other invoice in this respect. There are neither memorials, nor burials, anything.
And the logic of events prompts that it is provocation. The Russian troops left the city - there is neither photo, nor video of their presence at that time. After their leaving the mayor Buchi said that in the city everything is quiet any killed did not mention. And here, after that our ill-wishers performed special information operation on distribution of false information about allegedly atrocities.
And even the British media only a month later after that said that the people who died in Butch died of splinters of mines, but not of bullets.
Returning to the Olympic Movement and the mayor of Paris, Zakharova once again emphasized that the Russian side did not see any prerequisites for such statements. "If she spoke about herself personally - who to her granted such right?
And if about residents, the authorities of Paris did not ask them. In general the Élysée Palace promotes distribution of misinformation, such as on a situation in Butch, using at the same time strokes of policy and methodology. And this statement is made in the context of the misinformation company too", - the representative of the MFA concluded.
Besides, she hinted at possible consequences of such decisions and statements for the French business, the running business in the Russian Federation: "On each French goods it is possible to paste a label - here are not glad to you".
Maria Zakharova and recent revelations of the head of the IOC Thomas Bach did not disregard. Communicating with the Russian prankers, that admitted that he put pressure upon other countries that those did not participate in the Russian games of friendship. These revelations shake, Zakharova admitted.
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, Bach's statements confirm conspiracy and demand investigation. Conspiracy with representatives of one country, one national team not to allow other national team to sports meets. The diplomat it is convinced that after all statements of Bach he could be disqualified. "It discredits itself(himself) and the Olympic Movement kills", she said.
The second question The Moscow Post concerned the veto imposed by Russia on the draft resolution of the USA about extension of the mandate of experts of sanctions Committee of UN Security Council on the DPRK. What formula of the Russian Foreign Ministry what it means for execution of the international obligations of the Russian Federation and development of the bilateral relations with the DPRK?
According to Maria Vladimirovna, in the MFA perfectly understand why our interaction with North Korea causes such rejection of the western countries. The problem of the West is to make the Korean peninsula a zone of military operations, but not just the territory where events develop on a destructive way.
"It is their direct task: the operated chaos. For decades this region balances, is on the razor-edge. All measures that this dream of the USA, this task which they did not manage to solve last century, namely to push off the Korean peninsula, to bring to military opposition, was solved in this century are undertaken", - Zakharova noted.
The third question of our edition concerned cancellation by a considerable part of banks of Armenia of service of the MIR cards in connection with sanctions pressure. How can it affect the Russian-Armenian relations?
As the representative of the MFA answered, the economy of Armenia will inevitably suffer losses, to citizens of the country, workers in Russia, it will become more difficult to transfer money home, the costs and tourists will incur. There are also other examples as it will strike Armenia. Thus, costs from this step for Yerevan will be much bigger, than there would be a damage from the western restriktion.
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