As she noted on Channel One, the Russian side does not see any reason to play along with those people who have tried to do everything so that the Russian delegation does not come to the UN.
“Now the tasks are completely different, just to minimize, level the charge and the damage that those people who tried to stop the Russian delegation were counting on. Why should we play along with them, ”RIA Novosti quoted her as saying.
Also, answering the question of “whether there was a temptation” for Lavrov to deploy a plane over the Atlantic and refuse to fly to the USA, as former Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov did in the past, Zakharova noted that the situation is different at the moment.
“At that moment, when U-turns took place over the Atlantic, the situation was completely different,” the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry explained.
Earlier, Lavrov said that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during the meeting confirmed that neither he nor US President Donald Trump was involved in the issuance of visas to several members of the Russian delegation to the UN.
At the same time, Lavrov pointed out to Pompeo the unacceptability of US actions to refuse Russian representatives visas.
Andrei Klimov, deputy chairman of the Federation Council committee on international affairs, commented on the situation in an interview with Vzglyad.