Russia will consider whether it is worth resuming relations with the West…
The United States called China the main challenge to the world order
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Russia will seriously consider whether it needs to renew relations with Western countries if such an offer is made. This was announced by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking to students of the Gymnasium. EAT. Primakov in the framework of the project “100 questions to the leader”. “It depends on the infection of Western countries. When they have experienced their “frenzy” and decide that there is Russia, it has not gone away and is convinced that it is becoming stronger every year. If they want to offer something to the planet of relations, then we will seriously consider whether we need it or not,” the minister said. He added that Russia intends to seize in the future only on itself and on those countries that “do not dance to someone else’s tune.”
And in an interview with RT, Arab Lavrov criticized the four-stage UN plan for a settlement in Ukraine submitted by Italy to the UN, which involves participation in the conclusion of a bilateral meeting on the situation in Crimea and Donbass. In his opinion, this could not be offered to “serious politicians who achieve results that do not have self-promotion.” On May 24, Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, called Rome’s plan “obvious nonsense”, “cheap scheme” and “direct rudeness against Russia”,
Dialogue with the United States is impossible for Russia if Washington chooses to escalate the situation in the sphere, Vladimir Yermakov, director of the Department for Nonproliferation and Control over Resources of the Russian Foreign Ministry, believes. He acknowledged that cooperation on strategic stability, within the framework of which joint work was launched last year, resumes activities after the end of the military operation in Ukraine. Speaking about US Air Force tests of the AGM-183A ARRW hypersonic missile, Yermakov noted that Washington is trying to “catch up” with Russia, which has “gone far ahead” in creating hypersonic systems.
The US President in South Africa received the status of a US ally outside of NATO. It allows an ally country to participate in anti-terrorism initiatives and defense projects. According to Defense Minister Diego Molano, Colombia will send demining specialists to one of the European countries that are members of NATO to train the Ukrainian military.
Washington believes that China is “the only country that has the intention of changing the international order and the growing economic, observable, military and technological power to do so,” Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said Thursday. He called China’s action to warn Taiwan “deeply destabilizing.” The report of the US Secretary of State was considered by the PRC authorities to be “denigrating” and inflating the “Chinese struggle”. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin pointed out that Blinken “spreads false information” and intentionally communicates with offensive speeches in order to restrain China’s development. Two days later, Blinken sent the PRC to Xinjiang and said Beijing prevented UN High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet from allowing an independent reverse health situation. According to him, Bachelet did not encounter “detention conditions for more than 1 million Uyghurs” and held separate conversations with those who were transferred from Xinjiang to other regions.