A doctor at the German embassy in Moscow was responsible for testing Olaf Scholz for the coronavirus upon his arrival in Russia on Tuesday, a German government source said ahead of the meeting between the German chancellor and Russian President Vladimir. Putin.
Scholz headed to Moscow on a high-value mission to avert war, with Russia’s biggest trading partner in Europe warning of far-reaching sanctions if Russia attacks Ukraine.
The PCR test was carried out aboard the plane that landed in Moscow, the source said, adding that the foreign ministry had offered Russia the opportunity to send someone to observe the procedure.
French President Emmanuel Macron last week refused a Kremlin request to take a Russian Covid-19 test when he arrived to see Putin to avoid Russia’s chance to obtain Macron’s DNA, two sources in Macron’s entourage told Reuters .
As a result, the visiting French head of state was kept at arm’s length from the Russian leader during lengthy talks about the Ukraine crisis. Scholz also sat aloof from Putin throughout Tuesday’s meeting.
After the meeting, both gave a press conference in which they said they did not want a new war in Europe.
At the press conference, Olaf Scholz said that Germany and other European allies classify any movement of Russian troops on the borders as “a threat”.
“We don’t see the reason for this accumulation of soldiers in the region, that’s why we have this accumulation of tensions, and it’s important that we avoid this so we don’t have a war in Europe,” said the chancellor.
The Russians, for their part, deny that there will be an invasion, but ask that NATO distance itself from Ukraine and its intentions to make the border country one of its members on the continent.
*With information from Giovanna Galvani, from CNN
Source: CNN Brasil
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