MAPUTO, Mozambique
United States Ambassador to Pretoria, Reuben Brigety, who alleged that South Africa had provided Russia with weapons, should mind his own business, Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov said at a news conference on Wednesday.
Asked to comment on
allegations by the US diplomat that the Lady R, a cargo ship, was transporting
weapons from South Africa to Russia, Lavrov said, “South Africa is a sovereign
nation. Russia is a sovereign nation, too. And we build our relations in full
compliance with the norms and principles of international law that exist in
this sphere.”
“If a side has any questions
in any domain of our cooperation, we tackle them on a bilateral basis.”
Russia’s top diplomat said.
“If an American or any other
foreign ambassador from across the ocean suspects something, he or she had
better mind their own business,” Lavrov said. As for weapons deliveries, Russia
“never violates international norms, unlike our Western counterparts who do so,
while declaring their neutrality on the developments in Ukraine, as they pump
that country with large amounts of the latest long-range and generally unsafe
weapons, including for those who use them,” he added, referring to depleted
uranium shells.
He emphasized that the West
has been sending weapons to the Kiev regime, whose officials have voiced
threats to kill all Russians. “Therefore, US ambassadors had better take care
of their own image in the eyes of the foreign public.” He concluded.
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