Russia has denied claims by a US general that Mexico is a nest of Moscow spies, calling it
"unacceptable"
.
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The Russian Embassy in Mexico
"carefully analyzed Mr. Glen VanHerck's speech and his opinion has no basis on the presence of 'Russian military spies' in Mexico City".
She deemed it
"unacceptable"
that the United States
"attempts to influence the activity and sovereign decisions of the Mexican government"
, in a press release published Friday evening on its social networks.
US General Glen VanHerck, commander-in-chief of the military region that covers the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Bahamas, said Thursday that
"the largest part of the members of the GRU (Russian military intelligence, editor's note) in the world is currently in Mexico.
It is the personnel of the Russian intelligence”
.
“Once again, we can observe the propaganda of the United States, one of the main objectives of which is to isolate Russia and Russian diplomats in the world through false information”
, continues the embassy.
Mexico's refusal to apply the sanctions
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador replied
on Friday that "Mexico is a free, independent, sovereign country, we are not a colony of Russia, nor of China, nor of the United States"
.
Mexico prepared with France the resolution adopted Thursday by the United Nations General Assembly which
"demands"
from Russia an
"immediate"
end to the war in Ukraine, but President Lopez Obrador refuses to apply economic sanctions against Russia.