Russia is waiting for specifics on the proposals of Germany and France on a meeting in the “Normandy format” – Politics
MOSCOW, November 18. / TASS /. The Russian Federation would like to hear specifics on the proposed proposals of the FRG and France on a meeting of foreign ministers in the “Normandy format”, Russia allegedly refused. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, commenting on the statement of the representative of the German Foreign Ministry that Berlin and Paris had made several specific proposals for a meeting of foreign ministers in the “Normandy format”, which the Russian Federation allegedly rejected.
“What are these? I would like to hear from the partners specifics: what proposals did they make and which Russia refused?”, Zakharova wrote on Thursday in Telegram channel…
On Wednesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry decided to publish the diplomatic correspondence between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and French and German Foreign Ministers Jean-Yves Le Drian and Heiko Maas in order to avoid distorting Moscow’s position on the Normandy format meeting of ministers. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry explained that the published correspondence makes it possible to see the proposals of Russia regarding the Normandy format in order to fill the meeting with “concrete meaning”, and also demonstrates the inconsistency of the statements of Western partners about the unconstructive position of the Russian Federation on this issue.