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Lavrov: ‘Greece does not want to follow the path of worsening anti-Russian sanctions’

“I understand that Greece is a member of NATO, the EU. But we also see that Greece does not want to follow the path of worsening anti-Russian sanctions, Greece in principle is not satisfied with what is happening now between the West and the Russian Federation. We trust “Our Greek friends, with their wisdom, will make the choice that meets their beliefs,” said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, when asked about recent reports by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peshkov on the transfer of equipment to Ukraine via base of Alexandroupolis.

According to the Russian minister, during the recent “very good” telephone conversation with the Greek Foreign Minister, Nikos Dendias, “yes, we raised the issue of the new steps taken in the Greek-American relations for the strengthening of the status of the port of Alexandroupolis for its purposes. “US Navy and yes, of course, we read in what directions the Americans will use this port.”

“The Minsk agreements, on which the diplomatic settlement of the crisis in eastern Ukraine is based,” Lavrov said during the first major press conference of the year, “there is a direct ban on the stay of foreign troops on Ukrainian territory. There is no ban on sending weapons to Ukraine “. However, he noted that “at first there are many foreign troops there. There are not thousands, as some sometimes mistakenly say. But there are a few hundred Americans, British, etc. There is typically no arms embargo.”

“But going back to the thoughts of the current Ukrainian government, we understand, of course, very well that what the West is doing to supply that power with weapons creates an additional temptation for it to resort to military methods of resolving issues in the Eastern Ukraine, and this is completely unacceptable to us for understandable reasons, in fact, to the so-called military advisers who work there. television image during the war in georgia in august 2008 when US military advisers, both white and african american, were actually advising on how to arm anti-tank and similar weapons, and i would not want that to happen again in ukraine. Because this will now be the crossing of all possible red lines, it will be a direct confrontation of the Russian citizens of Ukraine “and the NATO military,” said the Russian Foreign Minister.

“We have very old relations with our Greek colleagues, the Greek people, with Greece as a country, with historical roots. We remember Kapodistrias, who became the first governor of modern Greece, after his tenure in Russia, on the front of foreign diplomacy. And very recently we had good talks with Nikos Dendias, of course we discussed everything, and our bilateral relations, and the prospects for the development of trade-economic, investment, cultural-humanitarian relations. “Among them in the field of security”, Mr. Lavrov stressed.

Source: AMPE

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Source From: Capital

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