Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov explained why the initiative of European leaders in holding a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin was “buried.” Reports about it “Kommersant”.
“EU policy increasingly determines the aggressive Russian minority, which was fully confirmed at the EU summit in Brussels on June 24-25, where the prospects for relations with Russia were discussed. Initiative Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron on meeting with Vladimir Putin, did not have time to be born, was buried, “the article” On the right, Rights and Rules “article says.
According to the head of the foreign policy department, the opponents of the summit were Balts and Poles, even though “the United States – the fact of the Russian-American summit in Geneva – as it were, the green light of this initiative [Conduct the Summit].”
In addition, Lavrov said that new sanctions against Moscow, which was entrusted to develop on the results of the summit in Brussels, are not justified. “The result of the discussions in Brussels was the instructions of the European Commission and the European Foreign Ministry to develop new sanctions against Moscow – so far without specifying some” sins “, just to be about the reserve. If you wish something,” Lavrov said.
previously became known that in the European Union rejected the idea to invite Putin to meet with the leaders of the European Union countries. In addition, the heads of state and the EU governments at the Summit in Brussels instructed the EU foreign policy service under the leadership of Josep Borrel to explore the possibility of introducing new sanctions against Russia. German Chancellor Angela Merkel after the refusal of the Council of the European Union (EU) to organize a summit with Putin told about his proposal to negotiate in the format of “without leaders”.
The initiative of the meeting with Putin was put forward by the leaders of Germany and France Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron on June 23. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov suggested that Putin’s invitation idea may be associated with the past meeting of the Russian and American leaders in Geneva. The diplomat stressed that, probably, the Geneva negotiations were perceived in Brussels as a signal to the fact that “now you can also show your independence a little.”