The Ambassador of Russia in great Britain Andrey Kelin commented on Western policy of “deterrence and dialogue”.
Kelin noted that the policy of “deterrence and dialogue”, selected NATO and Britain against Russia, consists of containment at 95% and only 5% of the dialogue, reports TASS with reference to CGTN
He called on London to “act in a spirit of realism and to understand what advantages will result in cooperation and collaboration with Russia, not it attempts to oppose.”
In terms of coronavirus Moscow seeks to cooperate, but a number of countries are “flawed policy” of contention.
The deterioration of relations between the US and the UK with China, the Ambassador said that the world must “make every effort to avoid a new cold war and events that can lead in that direction.”
He criticized the United States for the release of the Paris climate agreement, the nuclear deal with Iran, Agreement on the elimination of intermediate-range and shorter-range and the open skies Treaty, as well as from the world health organization. The Ambassador stressed that “all these agreements and organizations embody an international order based on international law”.
“But what is now called “the order based on the rules”? In fact we are talking about the order, established and supported by the United States,” said he, adding that Russia “, this strange duality” when trying to “establish the rule of law”, but they themselves destroy it.
According to him, after Brexit “the United Kingdom will be more independent, but the trend” is that “the policy of great Britain more and more to do with the policy of the United States”, RIA “Novosti”.
“And this worries us a little,” said he.
For a profitable trade deal with the United States to London will have to make some policy conditions dictated by the Americans, the Ambassador said.
Speaking about Moscow’s attitude to Brexit, he said that “this applies to the UK”, while Russia “does not matter”. However, Brexit opens up new opportunities for economic cooperation, although it is hampered by political barriers.
We will remind, has declared that Russia “almost certainly” interfered in the internal Affairs of Britain and also “high probability” involved in the attempts of hackers to steal the vaccine formula against COVID-19. The Kremlin advised London to study the U.S. experience in the investigation of “Russian intervention”. Russian Ambassador Andrey Kelin considered nonsense statement about trying to steal data about the vaccine.
The MPs found no evidence that Moscow interfered in the referendum on Brexit, but accuse Russia of trying to influence the referendum on Scottish independence.
Kelin said that Moscow sees no sense in trying to affect the outcome of the referendum on Scottish independence.
