Lavrov Appreciated Turkey’s Refusal to Join Sanctions against Russia

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Moscow highly appreciates Ankara’s refusal to join Western sanctions against Russia, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov after the meeting of the envoys to international organizations and Turkish ambassadors. “Russia and Turkey pursue independent policies in foreign affairs. We highly appreciate our partners’ refusal to join anti-Russian sanctions”, Tass quoted him as saying. Also Lavrov drew attention to the fact that resistance to objective trends is obvious: the methods of sanctions, threats, blackmailing and dictating are widely in use. According to the minister the authorities of some Western countries have lost the culture of diplomacy, but he hopes that the objective reality will make reason prevail and global problems will be solved in accordance with the UN Charter. Source: Izvestia