Moscow-Sana
The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, confirmed today that it is totally unacceptable to use human rights and relying on democratic principles as a geopolitical means of putting pressure on states.
"This will seem particularly very rude against the backdrop of the total and continuous disregard by Brussels of the flagrant violations of freedom of the media and the rights of the Russian-speaking population in the Baltic countries and Ukraine and the absolute disregard for the problems of the European Union itself," Zakharova said in a press briefing today.
And Zakharova considered that the Western countries are waging a large-scale campaign against Russia with the aim of destabilizing the internal political situation in it, but these attempts are inevitably doomed to failure and Moscow will confront them.
On the other hand, Zakharova said: Russia considers Norway's decision to deploy US strategic bombers at a Norwegian air base as another step towards increasing military activity in the vicinity of the Russian border, adding, “We believe that this Oslo activity constitutes a threat to regional security and abolishes the traditional Norwegian policy of not deploying bases. A foreigner on its territory in peacetime. ”
On the second of this month, the US European Command, "Yukom" said that more than 200 US air force soldiers had deployed in Norway before the first maneuver of its kind for strategic bombers in the country in the coming weeks.
The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman confirmed that Russia will inevitably and proportionately respond to the possible new sanctions against it by the European Union, and said, "I would like to warn our partners in the European Union against another reckless step, and as you realize, an appropriate response will inevitably follow."
On the other hand, Zakharova announced that Russia warns Germany against trying to stir up a dispute between Moscow and Minsk and said, “Moscow has no illusions about Berlin’s official positions regarding the current political situations in our ally country. Directly or by other parties.
Last week, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas announced the establishment of a mechanism to collect evidence on cases of human rights violations in Belarus, and announced the allocation of 21 million euros for the program to support civil society in it.
