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Russian Foreign Minister Maria Zakharova shoots at outgoing US Secretary of State and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Specifically, the Russian Foreign Minister referred to the issue of Russia’s relations with Greece and Cyprus and the intervention of the United States in them.
“With regard to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s attacks on our relations with Greece and the Republic of Cyprus, we note that we are aware of the pressure from US representatives in the hierarchy of the Greek Cypriot and Orthodox churches to recognize the Ukrainian schismatic church.” .
“A strange interest in a secular state, which is thousands of kilometers from Ukraine, has no historical, spiritual or cultural ties to it, and the Orthodox represent only about 2% of the country’s population,” he added.
At the same time, Washington has publicly stated that a condition for the development of bilateral relations with Athens and Nicosia is the end (from Athens and Nicosia) of cooperation with Russia.
“We have repeatedly stressed that blackmail has no place in the civilized world and in international politics. Another example of the American habit of blackmailing. In a statement, Pompeo recalled the expulsion of Russian diplomats from Greece in 2018 for” undermining “the Agreement on Prespa. So far, there is no evidence of illegal activities on the part of Russian representatives. Moscow supported the agreement between Greece and North Macedonia. At the same time, serious violations of international legal norms and the Constitution of North Macedonia were committed under the strongest pressure from Western countries, mainly the United States, which was motivated by evaluations of Skopje’s possible membership in NATO as soon as possible and in no case by desire. to facilitate the resolution of the bilateral dispute. ” We were honest and open about our position, “Zakharova said.
The lost invitation
The teleconference “International Forum on Religious Diplomacy: Religions and Challenges of the New Decade” organized in Greece by the branch of “Foreign Affairs” in Athens attracted the attention of Moscow, says Ms Zakharova.
“Despite the theme of the event, which directly affects our interests, Russian representatives were not invited there. This circumstance is quite understandable, since the focus of the forum (and obviously its purpose) was to promote irrational accusations against Russia, which supposedly undermines the unity of the Orthodox world and interferes in the internal affairs of Orthodox countries. “Such statements sound particularly cynical from the lips of our American colleagues, known ‘orthodox advocates,’ who, unsurprisingly, acted like almost the leading organizers of this online initiative, “he says.
“It is strange: the insistence that the United States is trying to establish in the minds of its allies, motivated solely by political considerations, the interpretation of the division in Ukrainian orthodoxy, (act) largely inspired by them, to eliminate the Russia on this issue, as if there were no centuries of cultural and spiritual ties, essentially kinship between Russians and Ukrainians. “It is unfortunate that the Americans are playing openly with these areas, which seem to be more concerned with their opportunistic interests than with defending true orthodoxy , far from defending hierarchical supremacy. “
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