MOSCOW: The European Union (EU) does not conceal its plans to push Russia out of Central Asia and the South Caucasus, Russian Foreign Minis...
MOSCOW: The European Union (EU) does not conceal its plans to push Russia out of Central Asia and the South Caucasus, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Sunday.
"The European Union does not conceal its intentions to restrain [Russia] in every possible way and push it out of Central Asia and the South Caucasus. These attempts are futile. We have been historically present here and will not disappear anywhere. Both our partners and our allies are well aware of that," Russia’s top diplomat said in the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin program whose fragment was posted by journalist Pavel Zarubin on his Telegram channel.
Commenting on an article that appeared in the Western media after French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Kazakhstan, in which the Central Asian country was called [Russian President Vladimir] ‘Putin’s backyard,’ Lavrov said that Western leaders "allow themselves quite boorish pronouncements."
"French President Macron publicly said during his visit to Kazakhstan that he was glad that that country would never be anyone’s vassal. This is also quite coarse for the diplomatic language," the foreign minister said.
Earlier, Macro said following his meeting with Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev that Kazakhstan "refuses to be a vassal of any power states and builds a balanced partnership with several of them for the benefit of the Kazakh people," noting that this philosophy was close to France.
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