“You have no moral rights”
Maria Zakharova, on the broadcast of the Italian television channel La7, said that Western countries “talk about opening channels” to maintain dialogue with Russia, but in fact they close them, “does not allow the flight of Sergei Lavrov.” Serbia.” He explained that the Russian delegation should come to Belgrade for negotiations.
“EU and NATO member countries closed their airspaces, closed another communication channel. There will be no Iron Curtain, at least from our side, no need to worry, the European Union surrounding Russia with a curtain, ”says Zakharova.
According to him, the “mistakes” of Western countries are that they are “too selfish” and believe that they are “in the center of the world” and that there are no “peoples” other than themselves.
“You have no moral right to teach someone anything,” said the diplomat.
He added that the US-led collective West has long followed the path of severing relations with Russia, preventing it from building gas pipelines to Europe, for example.
“The Gravediggers of the European Dream”
Konstantin Kosachev, Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council, also commented on the telegram channel that European countries closed their airspace for Lavrov’s plane. He recalled that about five years ago, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva said, “Bulgaria does not and cannot have bilateral relations with Russia, Russia does business with the EU, not with Bulgaria.” The senator finds these words “humiliating” for a European country.
“The current collective refusal of Bulgaria, Montenegro and North Macedonia to allow Lavrov’s plane to pass over to Serbia is certainly not a decision of these three countries. All three NATO member states have lost their sovereignty severely and for a long time, and for them the European Union – for members and graduate students alike – is just a cover for this shameful situation,” he said.
He is sure that in the current situation we are saying “this could not have happened without a NATO exit and the United States”. The deputy head of the Federation Council described the ban on flying over the Russian Foreign Minister’s plane as NATO’s “direct interference” in bilateral relations between Russia and Serbia, two sovereign states that are not members of the North Atlantic Alliance.
In his view, NATO is trying to “capture and subjugate” the rest of Europe in this way. He believes that the alliance will try to spread its influence all over the world and that China will become its “second target” after Russia.
The senator stressed that Europe’s “lack of its own sovereignty” is the continent’s “main problem” and that it could become “one and indivisible” without NATO. He also described Bulgaria, Montenegro and North Macedonia as “grave diggers of a true European dream”. He also included Great Britain and Poland in his “funeral crew”.
“The current demarche, of course, is not about aircraft. It is directed against Russia as a state and Serbia as a state. I hope that the reaction will be common and extremely harsh, not only in the form of diplomatic protests, but also in the form of concrete, practical responses. So it would be unkind, ”Kosachev hopes.
“Attack on Serbia”
In a meeting with socialbites.ca, Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Relations Andrey Klimov said that the Russian Foreign Minister considers the incident related to his plane as an insult to the Russian Foreign Ministry and an “attack on Serbia”. “
“I think this is primarily an attack on Serbia. Of course, it’s justifiably outrageous, because it’s hard to read it any other way than as a blatant and blatant insult to our State Department. But still, the main target here is of course Vucic. Forgive the expression today, like a thorn in the eyes of the entire European Union. Serbia is the only state that maintains its independence in the entire continental Europe west of Russia. Serbs don’t give up. And every effort is made to crush them, to squeeze them, to extract anti-Russian soils from them, ”the statement said.
He also agrees with his colleague Kosachev that Russia’s response to the overflight ban on Lavrov’s plane should be harsh.
“Terrible” for European Lavrov
In turn, the head of the international committee of the Federation Council, Grigory Karasin, wrote on the Telegram channel that the overflight ban of Lavrov’s plane “caused a lot of emotions.”
“How terrible for Europe Sergey Lavrov thinks that physical blocking of contacts between the European Union, Russian representatives and foreign partners will strengthen the “unanimity” of Russian policy in Europe. In fact, this is indicative of a political inferiority complex, ”the senator is assured.
According to him, “fears are growing in the West that dialogue with Russia at the political level will destroy the unified anti-Russian system of the European Union.” According to Karasin, this means that Western countries “do not have confidence in the correctness of their approach”.
And Dmitry Rogozin, the general director of Roscosmos, joked about the Russian Sarmat missile system on his Telegram channel after the news about the decision of European countries.
The “good one” is this “Sarmat”? He will not consent to fly from cowardly Bulgarians, vindictive Romanians and Montenegrins who betrayed our common history. As well as other Swedes, ”says the Russian official.
Press conference instead of business trip
Last night, Bulgaria, Montenegro and North Macedonia banned Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s plane from crossing their airspace. As a result, the minister’s visit to Serbia, scheduled for 6-7 June, was cancelled.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said that Lavrov will hold a press conference at 13:00 Moscow time on Monday at the place of his visit. The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia will respond to current issues on the international agenda.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic also plans to address the nation on 6 June and talk about the situation surrounding Lavrov’s visit to the country, RTS reported.