MOSCOW, 29 Sep – RIA Novosti. Moscow does not want to aggravate relations with the Czech Republic, said the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, commenting on recent developments, including the charges of the Czech Republic in the training of Russian diplomats attempt on Prague politicians.
Answering the question whether it is possible now to define the relations between Moscow and Prague as tense, Zakharova said: “We would very much not want, we do everything to avoid it”. “We believe that these relations should develop on a mutually respectful basis, and that was always a good reason, why we see a chain of a number of things another direction – I have a big issue,” she said on air of radio station “Echo of Moscow”.
“what we see now in the Czech media or the actions of a number of Czech politicians and public figures, is simply bewildering. Because it is the natural or irreversible but there are ways their normal solutions, and in this case we are talking about some endless man-made problems, which that could not, and the appearance of which clearly speaks of their artificial nature,” she said.
Zakharov stressed that relevant agencies must provide evidence or refute such statements.
on Monday, the Prague weekly Respekt, citing a source in the local security services have alleged that three weeks ago in Prague came a man with a Russian diplomatic passport, which was in my suitcase deadly poison ricin. The man then proceeded to the Embassy of the Russian Federation to his waiting car of the diplomatic mission. As suggested by the weekly, the poison may have been intended for two to Prague’s municipal politicians: the mayor of the district Prague 6 ondřej Kolář and primator of Prague, Zdenek Griba. They are associated with the demolition of the monument to Marshal Konev and the renaming of the square in front of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the area of Boris Nemtsov.
the Embassy of the Russian Federation in this regard, sent a note to the Czech foreign Ministry stating the inadmissibility of the ongoing baseless attacks on Russia and its diplomatic mission in Prague.
representative of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Zuzana Stihova said that Prague considers a note to the Russian Embassy in Prague “improper”. In addition, according to the Czech Agency CTK, Stihova spoke about the arrival in Prague of a man with a Russian diplomatic passport. “The fact is that about three weeks ago from a business trip back to Prague, accredited to the Russian diplomat, whom his colleagues actually met at the airport. On the part of the Ministry of foreign Affairs to speak is not, is a question for the intelligence agencies,” said Stihova.
the Russian Embassy in Prague, in turn, said that since mid-March, none of the diplomatic staff of the Embassy arrived in Prague airport.
Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov said that the message of the Czech mass media like a duck. Zakharova had previously called information media and fake another irritant in bilateral relations. Later, the Russian foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that no one has evidence that Russia tried someone to poison in the Czech Republic.
